Title: w3c validation problem?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# w3c validation problem?

 *  [bonnit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bonnit/)
 * (@bonnit)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-problem-1/)
 * the line which gives the style sheet for the simple events calendar is constantly
   being flagged in w3c validator, its my only error for my homepage and i cannot
   understand how to fix this, can someone please advise?
 * the line being flagged:
    `<link rel='stylesheet' id='sec-styling-css' href='http://
   vintagebonbon.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/simple-events-calendar/simple-events-calendar.
   css?ver=1.3.4' type='text/css' media='all' />`
 * W3C validator error message
 *     ```
       Error Line 489, Column 199: Element link is missing required attribute property.
   
           …s-calendar/simple-events-calendar.css?ver=1.3.4' type='text/css' media='all' />
   
       Attributes for element link:
               Global attributes
               href
               crossorigin
               rel
               media
               hreflang
               type
               sizes
       Also, the title attribute has special semantics on this element.
       ```
   
 * my site link:
    [http://vintagebonbon.co.uk/](http://vintagebonbon.co.uk/)
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-events-calendar/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-events-calendar/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jerry Rietveld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgrietveld/)
 * (@jgrietveld)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-problem-1/#post-3963900)
 * Hi Bonnit,
 * If you can tell me what is wrong with the link element for the stylesheet I will
   happily make the changes to the plugin.
 * I think however [making a bold assumption here] that you might have found a bug
   in the W3C validator. Maybe something is confusing it, because if you look at
   the link element it has the following attributes:
    – rel – id – href – type –
   media
 * Compare that to any of the other stylesheets your calling in your site’s HEAD.
   You’ll find that they’re all identical. So there doesn’t seem to be anything 
   wrong with that link.
 * But again, please correct me if I’m wrong and I’ll make the required changes.
 * Thanks,
    Jerry
 *  [mica123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mica123/)
 * (@mica123)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-problem-1/#post-3963959)
 * I came across this post by chance – I have a similar problem with another plugin,
   so I hope you won’t mind if I ask for your advice here:
 * the error message from Validator means that the reference to the plugin’s stylesheet
   should be put within the HEAD tags. I checked everything in my plugin, but everything
   seems to be correct (wp_enqueue_style code seems to be correct) – so I am at 
   a loss.
    I hope you’ll be able to shed light on this.
 * Many thanks.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-problem-1/#post-3963960)
 * **[@mica123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mica123/)**: If you require 
   assistance then, as per the [Forum Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post),
   please post your own topic.

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/simple-events-calendar_d2d7d3.svg)
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-problem-1/#post-3963960)
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