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Bug 16582 - Validator believes content not an allowed attribute for element meta
Summary: Validator believes content not an allowed attribute for element meta
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Macintosh MacOS X
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2012-03-30 11:35 UTC by Andreas Ehn
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
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2012-03-30 11:35 UTC, Andreas Ehn 		Details

Description Andreas Ehn 2012-03-30 11:35:56 UTC 
Created attachment 1107 [details]
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Validating this page:

https://www.wrapp.com/

The validator complains about content attributes in meta elements:

Line 5, Column 42: Attribute content not allowed on element meta at this point.

I would have expected a complaint about the property element, but content is definitely allowed.
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2012-03-31 13:08:33 UTC 
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#meta

"If either name, http-equiv, or itemprop is specified, then the content attribute must also be specified. Otherwise, it must be omitted."

The mentioned line 5 of https://www.wrapp.com/ is does not have name, http-equiv, or itemprop.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2012-04-02 02:53:34 UTC 
Reopening because by default the HTML5 validator also is intended to support RDFa Lite 1.1, and that allows <meta content="Wrapp" property="og:title">, etc. (e.g., as used by the Facebook Open Graph).

So it seems I have a bug in the HTML5 validator that I need to fix.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2012-04-02 07:47:17 UTC 
Fixed in the source now, and re-deployed for http://validator.w3.org/nu and http://validator.w3.org