Topic: Ken's CSS no longer validates for anyone!?

[96Cobra]

Was adjusting some stuff on my site and decided to check the CSS validation.  I got 5 errors that I've never had before and I didn't make any changes that should affect any CSS files.  I started checking other users of his scripts to see if I could find out what was wrong with mine.  Every site I checked had the same errors.  I guess something changed with the validation "rules"??  The error text is...

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Sorry! We found the following errors (5)
URI : http://rkb2.com/weather-screen-silver-narrow.css
145 .leftSideBar ul Value Error : list-style-type none is not a list-style-type value : none
575 .postmetadata ul, .postmetadata li Value Error : list-style-type none is not a list-style-type value : none
585 #sidebar ul li Value Error : list-style-type none is not a list-style-type value : none
774 #horizontal-menu ul Value Error : list-style-type none is not a list-style-type value : none
URI : http://rkb2.com/index.php
42 .flyoutmenu ul Value Error : list-style-type none is not a list-style-type value : none
I compared other CSS files (colors & wide/narrow) and those have the same "none" comment, so they should now fail too.

[saratogaWX]

It's not the 'scripts' that have the issue, it is the CSS that seems to be flagged.

According to Sitepoint CSS reference (http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/list-style-type ), the value 'none' is allowed

list-style-type: { circle | disc | square | armenian | decimal | decimal-leading-zero | georgian | lower-alpha | lower-greek | lower-latin | lower-roman | upper-alpha | upper-latin | upper-roman | none | inherit } ;

and the W3schools (http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_list-style-type.asp ) also show 'none' as a valid parameter.

Even the CSS2.1 standard ( http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-CSS21-20070719/generate.html#list-style ) shows 'none' as a valid value.

Methinks that the http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ may itself have a validation issue since it doesn't properly recognize a standard CSS 2.1 value for link-style-type selector.

Best regards,
Ken

[gwwilk]

Thanks, Ken!  That's what I was just tracking down as well.  The problem seems to be the validator, not the CSS in question.  To be fair the validator did correctly flag a different problem that I had introduced recently with an inline style.

[96Cobra]

Ken, my fingers were faster than my brain (always...) when I typed the title. Got it (CSS) right in the message though!

[gwwilk]

Without any modifications my Ajax-Dashboard6 just passed CSS validation this evening, so apparently they've resolved their problem.