Title: HTML Validation Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# HTML Validation Error

 *  [baszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baszer/)
 * (@baszer)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/)
 * Hi, I am getting close by finishing [my theme](http://test.eenwebsitevanbas.nl).
 * I [validated my theme](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.eenwebsitevanbas.nl%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.2)
   and got some errors, the first three I don’t know what they mean.
 * example:
 * > Bad value EditURI for attribute rel on element link: Keyword edituri is not
   > registered
 * Because the validator says I have to look in line 19, but in the header there
   is no line like that… 🙁
 * Can somebody give me the golden tip?

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 *  Thread Starter [baszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baszer/)
 * (@baszer)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/#post-2114486)
 * anybody?
 *  Thread Starter [baszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baszer/)
 * (@baszer)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/#post-2114487)
 * I got the errors in the lines. Because of the weird rel attribuut
 * > <link rel=”EditURI” type=”application/rsd+xml” title=”RSD” href=”[http://test.eenwebsitevanbas.nl/xmlrpc.php?rsd&#8221](http://test.eenwebsitevanbas.nl/xmlrpc.php?rsd&#8221);/
   > >
 * > <link rel=”wlwmanifest” type=”application/wlwmanifest+xml” href=”[http://test.eenwebsitevanbas.nl/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml&#8221](http://test.eenwebsitevanbas.nl/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml&#8221);/
   > >
 * `<span class="category-icon"><a href="http://test.eenwebsitevanbas.nl/category/
   geen-categorie/" title="Alle berichten bekijken in Geen categorie" rel="category
   tag">Geen categorie</a></span>`
 * comes from the line of code:
    `<span class="category-icon"><?php the_category(',')?
   ></span>`
 * as you can see in the last line, there is (as far as I know) nothing wrong with
   my script. So how can I make sure the error disapears
 *  [Andrei Olsen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebulus/)
 * (@nebulus)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/#post-2114489)
 * These link types I believe are not part of HTML5 spec, but you have to remember
   it’s a working draft. Plus, the validator itself is in experimental stage.
 * wlwmanifest, EditURI are used by blog client software as far as I know
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client](http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client)
 * If these errors really bug you you can always clean up the header:
    [http://wpengineer.com/1438/wordpress-header/](http://wpengineer.com/1438/wordpress-header/)
 *  Thread Starter [baszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baszer/)
 * (@baszer)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/#post-2114499)
 * thanks Andrei for you reply.
 * The errors don’t really bug me, but I make this theme for the wordpress website.
   So I thought it needs to have zero errors on HTML validation. Or are these ‘errors’
   allowed?
 *  [Andrei Olsen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebulus/)
 * (@nebulus)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/#post-2114503)
 * Well… there’s a lot of back and forth
    [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Feb/att-0481/issue-118-decision.html](http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Feb/att-0481/issue-118-decision.html)
 * As far as I understand, current spec doesn’t allow these, so you can’t use them
   if you want the site to validate. But it’s unlikely anything will be broken if
   you do.
 * It would be interesting to hear what the core WP devs think about this issue 
   and/or are planning to do.
 *  [sourcelink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sourcelink/)
 * (@sourcelink)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/#post-2114591)
 * Well this could be one of those issues that drag on for a while.
    I also have
   an issue with my website not validating because of this little bug.
 * Although the presentation looks fine it’s annoying from an SEO point view that
   the site cannot be fully validated 🙂
 * Thanks for you input Andrei it went some way in providing an answer. Baszer I
   hope you finish your theme.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/#post-2114592)
 * 1. The HTML5 validator is experimental
 * 2. The HTML 5 aspec is still in draft., It won’t become a formal W3C spec until
   approx 2014 according to W3C.
 * So you’re currently using an experimental validator to check against a draft (
   and changeable) DOCTYPE spec.
 *  Thread Starter [baszer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baszer/)
 * (@baszer)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/#post-2114593)
 * [@sourcelink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sourcelink/), my theme is already
   two weeks waiting for approval. Last time was way faster, but I have the time
   🙂
 *  [suraj pal sharma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suraj-pal-sharma/)
 * (@suraj-pal-sharma)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-validation-error/#post-2114677)
 * try changing wp-includes/category-template.php replace ‘rel=”category tag”‘ by‘
   rel=”tag”‘

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