HTML Checking for Large Sites

The <script> tag allows authors to include dynamic scripts and data blocks in their documents. When the src is present, this tag accepts a type attribute which must be either:

• an empty string
• text/javascript (that’s the default, so it can be omitted)
• module

Examples:

<!-- This is valid, without a type it defaults to JavaScript -->
<script src="app.js"></script>

<!-- This is valid, but will warn that it can be omitted -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="app.js"></script>

<!-- An empty attribute is valid, but will warn that it can be omitted -->
<script type="" src="app.js"></script>

<!-- The module keyword is also valid as a type -->
<script type="module" src="app.js"></script>

<!-- Any other type is invalid -->
<script type="wrong" src="app.js"></script>
<script type="text/html" src="app.js"></script>
<script type="image/jpeg" src="app.js"></script>

An <iframe> element allows to embed an HTML document inside another HTML document, and its src attribute is indicated the source URL of the embedded web page. The src attribute is a required attribute, so it cannot be blank.

Example:

<iframe src="https://example.com/map.html"></iframe>

The src attribute on an <img> element contains an invalid character, that should be properly encoded as a URI percent-encoded character.

The src attribute for <img> tags is required, to define the source of the image, like in this example:

<img src="photo.jpg" alt="wombat" />

An <iframe> element allows to embed an HTML document inside another HTML document, and its src attribute is indicated the source URL of the embedded web page. The query part of that URL contains one or more space characters, which are not allowed, for example:

<iframe src="https://maps.google.it/maps?q=2700 6th Avenue"></iframe>

You should properly escape all space characters as %20 like this:

<iframe src="https://maps.google.it/maps?q=2700%206th%20Avenue"></iframe>

The src attribute on an element <img> contains a { curly bracket character, which is not allowed unless properly encoded.

Space characters are not allowed in src attributes. Instead, they should be converted to %20. In this example, the first line is invalid and the second is valid:

<img src="https://example.com/?s=some term" alt="description" />
<img src="https://example.com/?s=some%20term" alt="description" />

The src attribute on an element <img> contains a character that is not allowed, and should be encoded.

Some typical examples include the pipe character | that should be replaced by its encoded alternative %7C , and the left square bracket [ that needs to be encoded as %5B.

The src attribute on an <img> tag is not allowed to contain space characters. You should replace them with “%20“.

The src attribute value is malformed, check that it doesn’t contain extraneous characters.

For example, this is invalid because the URL in the src attribute contains a space in between the https: and // parts:

<a href="https: //example.com">Some link</a>

To fix this issue, you can try removing the space after “https:” in the URL in the src attribute:

<a href="https://example.com">Some link</a>