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I routinely validate my web pages after development work - and today found a bunch of link and javascript tags in the body of a Profile form page rather than the head. I spent ages trying to find where I had blundered - deleting caches and even reading through the code (without finding where the stuff was coming from).  I only found one similar comment in the Forums and it seems to have gone unanswered. As my Profile is a Joomla front-end form created via a Joomla menu I was a bit stumped. It turns out that the CiviCRM Joomla Demo site is the same: http://joomla.demo.civicrm.org/ (the Membership Signup Form) and so is the backend. The Drupal demo is not much better. And even the CiviCRM home page has some optional IE css markup between head and body tags.

The Profile form seems to work so maybe I am just too neurotic. But does it work on browsers I don't have, and will it work tomorrow? It is a sensitive issue because I just lambasted another piece of software for producing hopelessly invalid markup.

Cliff

It's my understanding that functionally there's no harm in having the javascript/css inserted in the body tag -- it's just not the efficient or optimized way to do things, and thus does not validate.

This has been something I've wondered about whether we could improve, but because Civi works the way it is, has been low on the list.

Joomla does enable insertion of content into the head tag via a system plugin (Joomla's equivalent of Drupal's hook system). Lobo, does Civi load the same set of java/css on every page? Or are there differences on a per-page basis? I've never taken a close look at comparing pages. If the set is the same, we probably could insert it pretty easily using a plugin.

Maybe we can talk about it more at the Dec. Dev Camp.