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Bug 14467 - Spurious error message "area tag needs href attribute"
Summary: Spurious error message "area tag needs href attribute"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2011-10-14 16:58 UTC by Torsten Bronger
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
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Description Torsten Bronger 2011-10-14 16:58:53 UTC 
If checking HTML5 with <area> tag without href attribute, the validator complains "XHTML element area is missing required attribute href".  However, http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-hyperlink-href states that the attribute is optional.
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2011-10-14 21:39:25 UTC 
Please provide a URL to a reproducer document.  Did you try with validator.nu?
See HTML5 related bug reporting instructions at end of http://validator.w3.org/feedback.html#bugreport
Comment 2 Torsten Bronger 2011-10-15 06:28:29 UTC 
Sorry for the inconvenience.  I filed a bug report at http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=864 and included a link to a test page there.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-10-24 11:31:45 UTC 
see comment #2