7597 2009-09-13 08:59:28 +0000 Markup "loaded" by validator differs from the markup loaded by public browser 2009-09-13 22:51:51 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator Website HEAD PC Windows 2000 RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.spaceundefined.com P2 normal --- 1 chrisrnz dave.null www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 27114 0 chrisrnz 2009-09-13 08:59:28 +0000 I'm not sure if this is a bug or not but this is the only place I could find to report something like this. I'm trying to validate http://www.spaceundefined.com at the moment. If I load the page and validate the source by direct input the page validates without any errors (XHTML 1.0 Strict). However, if I validate by URI the validator fails with 3 errors, all of which relate to markup that does not show in the source when viewing the URL in a browser. 27115 1 ville.skytta 2009-09-13 09:20:00 +0000 Validator checks what it gets served, you can see what it got using the "Show Source" checkbox in validator's options. Looks like the site is using ASP.Net; if it is, this might be helpful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exc57y7e.aspx (see "Configuring Browser Capabilities for Markup Validation") The user-agent query string parameter for the validator can be used to set a custom User-Agent header, that might affect the markup it gets served. http://validator.w3.org/docs/users.html#Options 27121 2 chrisrnz 2009-09-13 11:51:57 +0000 Yes I understand that and I've already done all that but I don't see why the validator would get different markup than a 'normal' browser. One of the errors I get is: Line 20, Column 16: Attribute "name" exists, but can not be used for this element. <form name="aspnetForm" method="post" action="Default.aspx" id="aspnetForm"> When I view the source in a browser that attribute isn't there. It's only there when I view the source received by the validator. Isn't that a bit strange? 27127 3 ville.skytta 2009-09-13 21:23:01 +0000 Perhaps, but there's nothing the validator can do about that, it needs to be addressed at the server serving the document. Or as said, you can try the user-agent (and accept, accept-language, and accept-charset) query string parameters to make the validator appear as a different "browser". 27128 4 chrisrnz 2009-09-13 22:50:54 +0000 Ok, understood. Thank you everyone! 27129 5 chrisrnz 2009-09-13 22:51:51 +0000 Ok, understood. Thank you everyone!