26084 2014-06-13 14:04:17 +0000 Validator reports "Empty heading" warning when only heading content is a script element 2015-08-23 06:58:44 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML Checker General unspecified PC Windows NT NEW P2 normal --- 1 porter.scobey mike+validator mike www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 107783 0 porter.scobey 2014-06-13 14:04:17 +0000 Line 11, Column 8: Empty heading. <h3><script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/buy3.js"></script></h3> The above line of markup causes the warning on the first line. The warning goes away if I simply insert an x as follows: <h3><script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/buy3.js"></script>x</h3> It would seem that script output should be acceptable as heading content, so this scenario should not generate a warning. 108799 1 mike 2014-07-08 14:45:27 +0000 (In reply to Porter Scobey from comment #0) > Line 11, Column 8: Empty heading. > > <h3><script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/buy3.js"></script></h3> > > The above line of markup causes the warning on the first line. That empty-heading warning is something I added fairly recently, experimentally, and I'm pretty close to deciding to just drop it. For one thing, if you're generating heading content from script, the script doesn't need to be child of the heading anyway -- it could (probably should) be at the end of the document anyway. So I'll probably turn off the empty-heading warning in next couple of weeks. As an aside: If you're doing things like generating your heading content from script, you might want to consider validating your generated content rather than your source. At http://codepen.io/stevef/full/LasCJ/ you can find a bookmarklet that enables you to use the validator to check the serialized DOM of any Web page.