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**RichardInJapan** · 04:28 AM

Hi there,

I have a simple page which is failing validation and I was wondering if somebody could take a quick look.

Here's the page:

http://www.ishigaki-japan.com/node/424

Result:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...m%2Fnode%2F424

Clearly I am closing the meta tag. I can't see the problem, but I must be doing something wrong.

Thanks in advance,

Richard

P.S Apologies for the error in the title - I meant 'Why on earth is this simple page failing to validate'

**tripy** · 07-14-2010, 09:36 AM

Well, you simply have a <meta> tag that is not closed:

Code:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">

Change it to

Code:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow"/>

and voila...

**RichardInJapan** · 07-18-2010, 11:22 PM

Thanks for the reply, however, it is closed. It's just that the validator says that it's not.

**tripy** · 07-19-2010, 12:29 AM

When I look at the page source, it's not closed.

**RichardInJapan** · 04:23 AM

Thanks very much tripy. You're indeed correct. I'm pushing the line:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow"/>

...into my CMS' template file for the page but the backslash is being filtered out for some reason. No idea why.

What's strange is that this page validates just fine despite the fact that it has the same problem:

http://www.ishigaki-japan.com/node/461

Thanks tripy.

**chrishirst** · 07-19-2010, 04:40 AM

Quote:

What's strange is that this page validates just fine despite the fact that it has the same problem:

Nope. That page has a correctly formed "robots" meta.

**RichardInJapan** · 07-19-2010, 07:45 AM

Clearly I'm missing something really obvious here.

Code which doesn't validate:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

Code which does validate:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

Aside from the fact that the first is 'noindex' I don't see the difference. Neither have a closing back slash.

**chrishirst** · 07-19-2010, 07:59 AM

Well, don't know what pages you are looking at but. ...

From /node/461/

HTML Code:

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Printable Japanese Coupon</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

from /node/424/

HTML Code:

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>English Voucher</title>
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">
</head>
<body>
  <div>

**RichardInJapan** · 07-19-2010, 08:31 AM

If I do a save as .htm I see the robots line without the closing backslash. If I do a 'view source' in Firefox I see it with a red backslash which I assume is indicating the absence of a slash.

Essentially I see the same for both pages in terms of formatting when I save as .htm. I'm simply not seeing what you're seeing. Very very strange.

**chrishirst** · 07-19-2010, 08:55 AM

Quote:

I see it with a red backslash which I assume is indicating the absence of a slash.

Nope! that shows it is a "self-closing" element

you should see a red slash on ALL meta elements, link elements, img elements and any <br /> tags.

**RichardInJapan** · 07-19-2010, 09:20 AM

Thanks Chris. I wasn't aware of that.

So...Firefox shows the same source (in terms of formatting) for both pages.

However, I've noticed that the difference can be seen when doing a view source via I.E.

I still have no idea why the slash in my template file is not making it to the final source. Probably a Drupal theming issue.

Thanks, Rich

**webpablo** · 07-26-2010, 08:29 PM

HTML Code:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Printable Japanese Coupon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

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