Title: Type attribute is unnecessary for JavaScript resources
Last modified: May 24, 2018

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# Type attribute is unnecessary for JavaScript resources

 *  Resolved Anonymous User 9948090
 * (@anonymized-9948090)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/type-attribute-is-unnecessary-for-javascript-resources/)
 * Hi
 * The Akismet plugin adds the javascript using following code to the website source
   code:
 * <script async=”async” type=’text/javascript’ src=’[https://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/akismet/_inc/form.js?ver=4.0.3′></script&gt](https://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/akismet/_inc/form.js?ver=4.0.3′></script&gt);
 * If we run W3 validator, it shows following warning:
 * The type attribute is unnecessary for JavaScript resources.
 * So the correct code should be:
 * <script async src=’[https://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/akismet/_inc/form.js?ver=4.0.3′></script&gt](https://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/akismet/_inc/form.js?ver=4.0.3′></script&gt);
 * Can this be corrected in next version?
 * Thank you.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Josh Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/procifer/)
 * (@procifer)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/type-attribute-is-unnecessary-for-javascript-resources/#post-10324238)
 * Hi there,
 * Unfortunately this isn’t something that can be changed in the Akismet plugin.
   Those tags are actually rendered by the core WordPress platform. There’s some
   discussion on that here:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-warnings-type-attribute/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-warnings-type-attribute/)
 * And there’s a ticket with a patch available here:
 * [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42804](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42804)
 * It appears the patch may be included in WordPress version 5.0.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 9948090
 * (@anonymized-9948090)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/type-attribute-is-unnecessary-for-javascript-resources/#post-10326124)
 * Oh. I understand. Thanks for the reply and those links.

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 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/type-attribute-is-unnecessary-for-javascript-resources/#post-10326124)
 * Status: resolved