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etcare
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February 20, 2020
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Special character must be escaped but I can't find the error

  • February 20, 2020
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I'm not really sure why I'm getting this error on dreamweaver. Everything seems to be running fine but I keep gettting this error. Anyone know why?

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Jon Fritz
Community Expert
Jon FritzCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 20, 2020

DW's validator wants you to write the following...

data-groups=["pruning"]

...as something along the lines of...

data-groups="['pruning']"

...with alternating double and single quote pairs.

    BenPleysier
    Community Expert
    BenPleysierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 20, 2020

    These are illegal characters for the data- attribute (outside of the quotation marks)

     

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    osgood_
    Legend
    February 20, 2020

    I don't know what 'data-group [ ]' is myself but the [ ] are not illegal after investigation, Jon is most likely onto something with the double/single quote aspect.

     

    EDITED:

    Maybe the brackets ARE illegal (persoanlly I've never come across them before myself) I was getting some feedback from an old post on Google where it looks like someone else is using them for some reason, or trying to use them:

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34154181/jquery-expression-for-data-group

     

    But I cant find any reference anywhere else much.

    BenPleysier
    Community Expert
    BenPleysierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 20, 2020

    The syntax for the data- attribute is

    data-name="data value"

     

    Where name cannot be in capitals and datavalue can be any string. The use of brackets within the datavalue can be associated with a framework.

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    osgood_
    Legend
    February 20, 2020

    It's most likely to be that the Dreamweaver validator doesn't understand - data-group="["pruning"]

    If its only that which evokes a validation error then forget it and move on.

    Test by removing them

     

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