Multiple links categories yields invalid XHTML in links widget

[jrbirge]

If you have multiple links categories, there will be multiple <li>'s created with the same "id=links", which causes the page to fail XHTML validation.

[jrbirge]

For what it's worth (I'm not very familiar with WP development) I think this can be fixed quite easily by removing one line from widgets.php:

--- widgets.php (revision 7580)
+++ widgets.php (working copy)
@@ -430,7 +430,6 @@

extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);
wp_list_bookmarks(array(

'title_before' => $before_title, 'title_after' => $after_title,

• 'category_before' => $before_widget, 'category_after' => $after_widget,

'show_images' => true, 'class' => 'linkcat widget'

));

}

[jrbirge]

Ok, that's actually quite a bad fix, for reasons I probably don't need to explain to anybody here. I guess the fix will have to go into bookmark-template.php? When it generates multiple categories, it should append something to the id passed to it so that the id's are unique.

[Otto42]

This is a duplicate of ticket #4287.