Power Gallery and W3C Validation

Hi I have numerous galleries on a website I have created and the only thing which is stopping the page/s from passing validation is the gallery I get this error:

Bad value <strong></strong> for attribute name on element a: An ID must not contain whitespace.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? Also you get this warning:

The name attribute is obsolete. Consider putting an id attribute on the nearest container instead.

If I remove the gallery then it passes so this is quite annoying thanks in advance Alistair

The image title that you enter in the gallery is used inside the strong tag.

to prevent this issue with the validation, make sure to add an image title in the gallery admin.


The name attribute is used by the lightbox components to display the image title and description and cannot be replaced.

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  The image title that you enter in the gallery is used inside the strong tag.

to prevent this issue with the validation, make sure to add an image title in the gallery admin.


The name attribute is used by the lightbox components to display the image title and description and cannot be replaced.  

That dosent do anything see below:
Bad value <strong>Large Patio Canopy:</strong> for attribute name on element a: An ID must not contain whitespace.

…<strong>Large Patio Canopy:</strong> "><img alt="" title="0##Large Patio Canop…

and it is not the spacing between the wording as i have galleries that have no spacing and are a single word any other ideas cheers Alistair

please post a link to the page you are experiencing this on.

Hi Jason here is one of the pages:

index.php

in the /gallery/galleries/ribbon_lightbox/index.php file, change line 60:

echo '<a href="' . $gallery['images'][$i]['fullsize']['url'] . '" rel="lightbox-pg' . $random . '" name="<strong>' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['title']) . (strlen($gallery['images'][$i]['title']) > 0 ? ':' : '') . '</strong> ' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['description']) . '"><img alt="" title="' . $i . '##' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['title']) . '##' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['description']) . '"  src="' . $gallery['images'][$i]['thumb']['url'] . '" width="62" height="62" /></a>';

to:

echo '<a href="' . $gallery['images'][$i]['fullsize']['url'] . '" rel="lightbox-pg' . $random . '" name="' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['title']) . (strlen($gallery['images'][$i]['title']) > 0 ? ':' : '') . '' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['description']) . '"><img alt="" title="' . $i . '##' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['title']) . '##' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['description']) . '"  src="' . $gallery['images'][$i]['thumb']['url'] . '" width="62" height="62" /></a>';

Thanks Jason that's the strong bit fixed although it now change to a different one see below, as you can probably see I have changed name to id which was another error:

Line 211, Column 132: Bad value Large Patio Canopy: for attribute id on element a: An ID must not contain whitespace.

&#8230;m/gallery/images/1/001_782p.jpg" rel="lightbox-pg419" id="Large Patio Canopy:">

Syntax of id:
An ID consists of at least one character but must not contain any whitespace.


Just a quick note if I take this out of the index file:

id="' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['title']) . (strlen($gallery['images'][$i]['title']) > 0 ? ':':'') . '' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['description']) .'"

It validates OK also is there a way to make the image title the alt tag as well

change:
alt=""

to:
alt="' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['title']) .'"

Thanks Jason this now validates and has the alt tag as requested see below:

echo '<a href="' . $gallery['images'][$i]['fullsize']['url'] . '" rel="lightbox-pg' . $random . '" >
<img alt="' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['title']) .'" title="' . $i . '##' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['title']) . '##' . str_replace('"', '\"', $gallery['images'][$i]['description']) . '" src="' . $gallery['images'][$i]['thumb']['url'] . '" width="62" height="62" /></a>';

Although I do get this as a warning:

Line 222, Column 111: Bad value 001_782p.jpg for attribute href on element a: Path component contains a segment /../ not at the beginning of a relative reference, or it contains a /./. These should be removed.

&#8230;p://www.canopiesuk.com/../gallery/images/1/001_782p.jpg" rel="lightbox-pg785" >

That is caused by the way we are determining paths to the images and wont be able to be "fixed" without breaking the ability to have the gallery on multiple pages in the site.