[solved] Valid HTML elements in templates changed by php

Hi. I'm creating a custom template for my news list elements, where I use HTML5 valid code, so I wrap a buch of divs, headline and p's in 1 anchor element, so everything is a big link. In HTML this works without any problem, when I use in my template file, it is completely changed: it makes html4 valid, so puts a lot of anchor tags around the texts, and where it's not possible, there places only empty anchor elements.

I've saw this problem already in other CMS's, too, but there I came up with another structure. Here, it would be important this. If somebody has any ideas, that would be awesome :)
Thanks!

Hi,

Can you put the code here ?
I have done some anchors for a project and I didn't have any problems.

So basically this is a list of news (template):

HTML Code:

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<a href="<?php echo $this->link;?>">
  <div class="meta">
    <img src="<?php echo $this->singleSRC;?>" alt="">
    <time itemprop="dateCreated" datetime="<?php echo date("Y-m-d", $this->timestamp);?>"><?php echo date("d.m.Y", $this->timestamp);?></time>
  </div>

  <div class="news-content defpadding">
    <!-- Max char 75 -->
    <h2><?php echo $this->linkHeadline;?></h2>
    <!-- Max char 190 -->
    <?php echo $this->teaser;?>
  </div>
</a>

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and this is what I get back:

HTML Code:

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<a href="aktuelles/das-abenteuer-erste-liga-beginnt-5.html">
  <div class="meta">
    <img src="files/SGBBM/SGBBM/Bilder/Aktuelles/news_square.jpg" alt="">
    <time itemprop="dateCreated" datetime="2014-08-13">13.08.2014</time>
  </div>
</a>
<div class="news-content defpadding">
  <a href="aktuelles/das-abenteuer-erste-liga-beginnt-5.html">
    <!-- Max char 75 -->
  </a>
  <h2>
    <a href="aktuelles/das-abenteuer-erste-liga-beginnt-5.html"></a>
    <a href="aktuelles/das-abenteuer-erste-liga-beginnt-5.html" title="Den Artikel lesen: Das Abenteuer Erste Liga beginnt 5">Das Abenteuer Erste Liga beginnt 5</a>
  </h2>
  <!-- Max char 190 -->
  <p>Lorem ipsum text</p>         
</div>

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...no idea why (I removed the comments, and every extra line, still not good)

Hum. Weird..

I think it comes from :

PHP Code:

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<?php echo $this->linkHeadline;?>

---

If you just show this line, what happens ?

AAaa, I don't know who you are, but I will find you, and I will buy you a beer :) linkHeadline outputs a link, too (which is quite normal) and browsers don't really like anchors in anchors :) I changed to $this->headline, now everything is ok. Thanks again!

A beer ! This is so much what I need XD

If you want a HTML5 template, I give you some advices :

- Put each news item into an "<article>"
- Your <time> should be on the pattern :

PHP Code:

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<time datetime="<?php echo $this->datetime; ?>" title="<?php echo $this->date; ?>" pubdate><?php echo $this->date; ?></time> <span itemprop="author"><?php echo $this->author; ?></span> <span itemprop="commentCount" content="<?php echo $this->numberOfComments; ?>"><?php echo $this->commentCount; ?></span>

---

Remove author and comments if you don't have.

- Your <img> should be in a <figure> tag :

PHP Code:

---

<?php if ($this->addImage): ?>
<figure class="image_container<?php echo $this->floatClass; ?>"<?php if ($this->margin): ?> style="<?php echo $this->margin; ?>"<?php endif; ?>>
      <?php if ($this->href): ?>
        <a href="<?php echo $this->href; ?>"<?php echo $this->attributes; ?> title="<?php echo $this->alt; ?>">
      <?php endif; ?>
      <img src="<?php echo $this->src; ?>"<?php echo $this->imgSize; ?> alt="<?php echo $this->alt; ?>">
      <?php if ($this->href): ?>
        </a>
      <?php endif; ?>
      <?php if ($this->caption): ?>
        <figcaption class="caption" style="width:<?php echo $this->arrSize[0]; ?>px"><?php echo $this->caption; ?></figcaption>
      <?php endif; ?>
    </figure>
<?php endif; ?>

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- And you can use <summary> / <details> tag on your teaser if he's too long.


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