# W3C markup validation issues

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/w3c-markup-validation-issues/1451>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Tags:** writeas\
**Created:** [May 27, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/w3c-markup-validation-issues/1451 "2020-05-27T19:44:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Melyanna](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/melyanna/32/191_2.png) [@Melyanna](https://discuss.write.as/u/Melyanna)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/w3c-markup-validation-issues/1451/1 "2020-05-27T19:44:17Z")

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Hi!

I wouldn’t call this “bug”, but I picked the category that seemed more fitting.  
When feeding write.as blogs to [https://validator.w3.org/](https://validator.w3.org/), even without any css or js customisation, a bunch of errors get reported.

One of these actually looks like a typo (so maybe “bugs” is the appropriate category after all):

`attribute "scolling" not allowed on element ['iframe'](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-iframe-element) at this point`.

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From line 431, column 4; to line 431, column 191

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` ↩↩ ↩ <iframe src="https://write.as/me/iframe" scolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="position: absolute; top: 0.75em; left: 1.5em; border: 0; width: 46px; height: 46px;"></ifra`

I am not smart enough to submit pull requests to fix any of the errors, but I am wondering if there is anything else I can do to help?

Thank you as always for the great work. 🙂

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**Author:** ![cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/cjeller1592/32/128_2.png) [@cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/u/cjeller1592)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/w3c-markup-validation-issues/1451/2 "2020-05-27T21:21:41Z")

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Thanks for finding this @Melyanna! Bringing this up is the most you can do here to be honest — should be an easy fix on our end.

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**Author:** ![cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/cjeller1592/32/128_2.png) [@cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/u/cjeller1592)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/w3c-markup-validation-issues/1451/3 "2020-06-01T19:40:33Z")

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Just wanted to bump this topic to say we fixed the bug pertaining to the “scolling” typo! Thanks again for bringing this to our attention @Melyanna. Might be worth going through the w3 validator again to see if we can find anything else worth fixing.

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**Author:** ![Melyanna](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/melyanna/32/191_2.png) [@Melyanna](https://discuss.write.as/u/Melyanna)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/w3c-markup-validation-issues/1451/4 "2020-06-02T20:15:35Z")

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Hi @cjeller1592

there are still a number of errors: 26 if you filter out the warnings using [https://write.as/cues/](https://write.as/cues/) to perform the check.  
Most of them though are a repetition of these here, so if you feel that they need to be fixed, watch out as they appear multiple times.

- **Error** : Bad value `` for attribute `dir` on element [`html`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-html-element).From line 1, column 16; to line 2, column 14 `TYPE HTML>↩<html dir="">↩	<hea`
- **Error** : CSS: Parse Error.From line 77, column 1; to line 77, column 3 `y: 1;↩}↩ ↩img {↩ `
- **Error** : Bad value `` for attribute `dir` on element [`h1`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-h1,-h2,-h3,-h4,-h5,-and-h6-elements).From line 120, column 3; to line 120, column 29 `header>↩ <h1 dir="" id="blog-title"><a hre`
- **Error** : Duplicate attribute `class` .At line 136, column 46 `op="name" class="p-name"><a hr`
- **Error** : Attribute `pubdate` not allowed on element [`time`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-time-element) at this point.From line 139, column 2; to line 139, column 137 `	↩	</h2>↩	<time class="dt-published" datetime="2020-06-02T17:13:20Z" pubdate itemprop="datePublished" content="2020-06-02 17:13:20 &#43;0000 UTC">June 2`  
Attributes for element [`time`](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-time-element):[Global attributes](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#global-attributes)  
`datetime` — Machine-readable value

Plus this one:

- **Error** : Stray start tag `script` .From line 401, column 2; to line 401, column 32 `body>↩↩	↩	<script src="/js/h.779d78e.js"></scri`

If I feed the tool my blog, I also get these:

- **Error** : The `itemprop` attribute was specified, but the element is not a property of any item.From line 21, column 3; to line 21, column 43 `s.">↩ ↩ <meta itemprop="name" content="Tea Time">↩ <me`
- **Error** : The `itemprop` attribute was specified, but the element is not a property of any item.From line 22, column 3; to line 22, column 96

These don’t seem to be in any of the code I added to customise my blog though, so I wonder if it’s something other blogs would get too.

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**Author:** ![cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/cjeller1592/32/128_2.png) [@cjeller1592](https://discuss.write.as/u/cjeller1592)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/w3c-markup-validation-issues/1451/5 "2020-06-03T16:57:05Z")

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Thanks for listing these out @Melyanna — that’s a _huge_ help! We’ll definitely address these errors that are global to all Write.as blogs and keep everyone updated on these.