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HTML validator – Bad value for attribute action on element form

Andrew
Participant

@snd26

8 years, 3 months ago
On HTML validator https://validator.w3.org/ I have 1 error:

Bad value for attribute action on element form: Must be non-empty.
<form action=”” name=”activity-loop-form” id=”activity-loop-form” method=”post”>

Because in activity/activity-loop there is a form at the bottom with nothing in the action attribute:
```
do_action( 'bp_after_activity_loop' ); ?>

<?php if ( empty( $_POST['page'] ) ) : ?>

	<form action="" name="activity-loop-form" id="activity-loop-form" method="post">

		<?php wp_nonce_field( 'activity_filter', '_wpnonce_activity_filter' ); ?>

	</form>

<?php endif; ?>
```
I searched these forums and someone already mentioned this:
https://buddypress.org/support/search/Must+be+non-empty./

I don’t think HTML5 allows the action attribute to be blank.

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Hugo Ashmore
Keymaster

@hnla

8 years, 3 months ago

I would ignore the “warning” and move on, the form ‘action’ attribute is not explicitly set as required, browsers will work without it being set and return the existing url; personally I prefer it set but…

I would take care in running validation routines over WP code, you’ll almost certainly receive a lot of warnings from various areas and given most sites are built on a structure of modular third party code, it will be next to impossible to get 100% clean results.

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