Weblint Warnings

Errors

Attribute format
Illegal value for ... attribute of ... (...)
Bad text context
Illegal context, <...>, for text; should be in ....
BODY without HEAD
<BODY> but no <HEAD>.
Closing attribute
Closing tag <...> should not have any attributes specified.
Element overlap
</...> on line ... seems to overlap <...>, opened on line ....
Empty container
Empty container element <...>.
Expected attribute
Expected an attribute for <...>.
HEAD element
<...> can only appear in the HEAD element.
Heading mismatch
Malformed heading - open tag is <...>, but closing is </...>
Illegal closing
Element <...> is not a container -- </...> not legal.
Leading whitespace
Should not have whitespace between "<" and "...>".
Literal metacharacter
Metacharacter '...' should be represented as '...'
Meta in PRE
You should use '...' in place of '...', even in a PRE element.
Mis match
Unmatched </...> (no matching <...> seen).
Must follow
<...> must immediately follow <...>
Nested element
<...> cannot be nested -- </...> not yet seen for <...> on line ....
Non-HEAD element
<...> cannot appear in the HEAD element.
Odd quotes
Odd number of quotes in element <...>.
Once only
Tag <...> should only appear once. I saw one on line ...!
Repeated attribute
Attribute ... is repeated in element <...>
Required attribute
The ... attribute is required for the <...> element.
Required context
Illegal context for <...> - must appear in <...> element.
Require head
No <TITLE> in HEAD element.
Unclosed comment
Unclosed comment (comment should be: ).
Unclosed element
No closing </...> seen for <...> on line ....
Unexpected open
Unexpected < in <...> -- potentially unclosed element.

Portability

Attribute delimiter
Use of ' for attribute value delimiter is not supported by all browsers (attribute ... of tag ...)
Heading in anchor
<A> should be inside <...>, not <...> inside <A>.
HERE anchor
Bad form to use `here' as an anchor!
HTML outer
Outer tags should be <HTML> .. </HTML>.
IMG alt
IMG does not have ALT text defined.
Markup in comment
Markup embedded in a comment can confuse some browsers.
Obsolete
<...> is obsolete.
Physical font
<...> is physical font markup -- use logical (such as ...).
Quote attribute value
Value for attribute ... (...) of element ... should be quoted (i.e. ...="...")
Require DOCTYPE
First element was not DOCTYPE specification.
Title length
The HTML spec. recommends the TITLE be no longer than 64 characters.
Unknown attribute
Unknown attribute "..." for element <...>.
Unknown element
Unknown element <...>.

Consistancy

Container whitespace
... whitespace in content of container element ...
Heading order
Bad style - heading <...> follows <H...> on line ....
Lower case
Tag <...> is not in lower case.
Mixed Case
Tag case is ignored
Upper case
Tag <...> is not in upper case.

Enhancements

IMG size
Setting WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes on IMG tag can improve rendering performance on some browsers.
Mailto link
Did not see <LINK REV=MADE HREF="mailto..."> in HEAD.

Extentions

Extension attribute
attribute `...' for <...> is extended markup (use "-x <extension>" to allow this).
Extension markup
<...> is extended markup (use "-x <extension>" to allow this).

Unsupported

The following warnings are avaliable in weblint.. but not avaliable in a gateway version.

Bad Link
Target for anchor "..." not found.
Directory index
Directory does not have an index file (...)

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