make sure 'empty' sections are also empty on text browsers
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	Jidanni
	Nov 21 2010, 6:52 AM

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Fine with me if you want to make empty sections (Bug #23026). Go right
ahead. But please please please do it a cleaner way, making sure that
they don't still inadvertently show up visible in text browsers!!

$ w3m -dump http://abj.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Special:Specialpages | grep -C 7 Views

Namespaces

• Special page

Variants

Views

Actions

[ ] [Go] [Search]

$ GET http://abj.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Special:Specialpages | grep -A 1 empty
<div id="p-variants" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet">

		<h5><span>Variants</span><a href="#"></a></h5>

<h5>Views</h5>

<div id="p-cactions" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet">
<h5><span>Actions</span><a href="#"></a></h5>

If you can't do it a cleaner way, then don't do it in the first place.
We never had such a problem with other skins.

If it is not to be shown to the general public, then don't show it to
text browsers users either, please.

Version: 1.17.x
Severity: minor

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Reference: bz26035

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:15 PM

• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-User-Interface, Accessibility.

• bzimport set Reference to bz26035.

Jidanni created this task.Nov 21 2010, 6:52 AM

Use Alt V Y N (View -> Page Style -> No style) to see the bug in Firefox.

giecrilj wrote:

empty lists are not valid per XHTML.

<URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki >

Line 214, Column 10: end tag for "ul" which is not finished

(at least one list item must be present)

(In reply to comment #2)

empty lists are not valid per XHTML.

<URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki >

Line 214, Column 10: end tag for "ul" which is not finished

(at least one list item must be present)

We know, and we don't care. This restriction in XHTML is stupid, and was removed in HTML5. See bug 24500 comment 7 for the full argument for keeping these empty lists.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 24500 ***

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23026 ***

Aklapper removed a parent task: T2367: Several markup accessibility issues.Dec 9 2019, 1:28 PM

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