HTML syntax checking warnings

Alain C

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Sep 27, 2021, 8:36:47 AM9/27/21

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I get hundreds of useless warnings :

Element “<dt>” implicitly closed here

In the past I was able to get rid of that but don't remember how to configure BBedit

Can you help? Thanks.

Greg Raven

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Sep 28, 2021, 8:14:46 AM9/28/21

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At the top of the HTML Syntax Errors window, you can uncheck the display of errors and/or warnings and/or notes.

jj

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Sep 28, 2021, 11:14:01 AM9/28/21

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Hi Alain,

Those warnings are probably reporting that your document has unclosed "<dt>" tags (missing "</dt>").

You might try to have Tidy add the missing "</dt>" for you with:

menu Markup > Tidy > Clean Document

After running the command and before saving the document, you can check the performed changes with:

menu Search > Find Differences… > Compare Against Disk File

and eventually revert undesired changes.

HTH

Jean Jourdain

Alain C

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Sep 29, 2021, 8:45:10 AM9/29/21

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Thanks for your answers but that's not what i'm looking for. I know how to show/hide results (I used BBEdit for 20 years), I don't want to modify hundreds of files. In fact following a new MacOS installation I lost all my preferences, until last week BBedit behaved like I expect, I restored Application Support BBEdit folder but there is probably a hidden preference somewhere for those implicit closed tags.

Alain C

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Sep 29, 2021, 8:45:18 AM9/29/21

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Solved : I restored com.barebones.bbedit.plist, HTMLSyntaxChecker:WarnForImplicitlyClosedTags hidden preference

Le mardi 28 septembre 2021 à 17:14:01 UTC+2, jj a écrit :

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