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[How-to] Make Your vB Template XHTML Validate Correctly
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13 Sep 2007
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- 4.00 average) Have you tried validating your vBulletin-powered site with the W3C validator? A standard vB installation will fail the validation with one error-- it's missing the xmlns attribute for html tag at the very beginning. You can check this by validating the vB forums. The <html> tag should look like <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> So until vB's default templates are changed to include the xmlns info, I needed a workaround, and I didn't want to manually edti dozens of templates. In comes a brilliant feature that is implemented in the ACP. Expand the Styles & Templates section and click on Replacement Variable Manager. Add a new Replacement Variable for each of your parent styles. Search for text:
Replace with text:
This will add the xmlns attribute to the <html> tag and now your pages should validate as XHTML.
Turns into
Happy Validating! 
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21 Oct 2007, 16:17
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thanks dood!
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27 Oct 2007, 00:47
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Awesome, cheers!
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14 Nov 2007, 05:47
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realy awesome
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19 Dec 2007, 11:30
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Originally Posted by Analogpoint
With the new vB release, it should be corrected. If you check now that link, it say is Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
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19 Dec 2007, 12:11
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I wanted to say the same thing about 2 hours ago Triky... but then i looked at the thread date and i said to myself: "Naaaaaaaaaaaah".
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19 Dec 2007, 13:25
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LOL
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21 Dec 2007, 17:37
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18 Feb 2008, 12:21
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The fix suggested by Analogpoint has the downside of making all templates showing up as modified.
Another fix for making vBulletin 3.6.x validate is to hack the includes/functions.php file. Line 4628 (or somewhere around there) should read:
Replace that with
and you will have xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'; inserted in the right place in your <html>-tag. My suggestion for a fix is much uglier but it has the benefit that it can be undone very easily and doesnt make all your templates show up as modified. Edit: After doing some testing I realised that that variable is also used in some of the templates. So there will still be template edits. Hopefully not as many though. No members have liked this post.
Last edited by Peter85 : 19 Feb 2008 at 10:55.
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