Bug 960 – "there can only be one meta-based character encoding declaration per document"

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Bug 960 - "there can only be one meta-based character encoding declaration per document"


Summary:	"there can only be one meta-based character encoding declaration per document"

Status:	RESOLVED MOVED

Product:	Validator.nu
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Non-schema checkers
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 major
Assigned To:	Nobody

URL:	http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html...

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Reported:	2013-01-23 11:05 CET by Leif Halvard Silli
Modified:	2016-02-04 17:45 CET (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Leif Halvard Silli 2013-01-23 11:05:37 CET

HTML5 says that

]] In addition, due to a number of restrictions on meta elements, there can only be one meta-based character encoding declaration per document. [[

Which means that it is an error when the validator doesn't consider the last 3 metatags an error.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title></title>

(Try in valdiator.nu: http://tinyurl.com/a6pvtnf )

The bug has also been reported at https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20743

Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2016-02-04 17:45:28 CET

Moved to https://github.com/validator/validator/issues/236