Validome Warnings, The Link # points to a not existing Anchor

March 1, 2009 – 12:08 by Dani Iswara. Words count: 164.
Last updated: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 0:05.

When using Validome validator against X/HTML validation, sometimes we get something like: Warnings, The Link # points to a not existing Anchor.

Usually, it happen on these situation:

  1. a relative link without slash,
    e.g.
    <a href="#content" title="it should go to content">skip to content</a>
  2. an empty link,
    e.g.
    <a href="#">title of the other post</a>

See sample page.

Both of validators said that the sample page (Transitional DOCTYPE) is valid XHTML.
But a warning will be given by Validome validator, only to an empty link:

Warnings
The Link “#” points to a not existing Anchor.

On a Strict DOCTYPE (while served as Internet media type application/xhtml+xml[?]), Validome’s warning will appear in the situation #1.

W3C validator said valid without any warnings.

The facts are:

  • “skip to content” link doesn’t work, and
  • “it should link to other page” doesn’t work too.

Read common challenges against Validome: failed on Validome XHTML validation (Dani Iswara .Net).

Should we use Strict DOCTYPE then against Validome to confirm the web standard? :)

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2 Responses to post titled: Validome Warnings, The Link # points to a not existing Anchor

  1. Comment by uwiuw on March 29, 2009 at 02:50:37
    using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows XP

    apa itu karna empty link itu kan ngaka da gunannya ? jadi ngak bisa diinterpretasikan lain selain dead link ? :D just wonder

  2. Comment by Dani Iswara on March 29, 2009 at 07:57:20
    using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 on Gentoo Linux

    uwiuw,
    bisa jg ya mas aulia, validator w3c mungkin berpikir itu tugasnya w3c link checker, tp perangkat tsb/koneksi inet saya sedang error waktu saya cek :)

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