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:
- a relative link without slash,
e.g.<a href="#content" title="it should go to content">skip to content</a> - 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? 
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 ?
just wonder
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