[SueParker]

Hi again, thank you for your patience.

I don’t think the hidden shortcodes are broken. They work just like I was hoping (I followed the instructions in this post which seemed similar to what I wanted to do: https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/add-multiple-images-using-wp-lightbox-ultimate#post-29422

Everything displays properly – I added in anchor text into the hidden shortcodes per your new suggestion.

I still get an assortment of validation errors that seem to relate to the plugin:

Bad value wp_lightbox_prettyPhoto[image_group1] for attribute rel on element a: Illegal character in path component. The string wp_lightbox_prettyphoto[image_group1] is not a registered keyword or absolute URL.

…s-living-gary-douglas.jpg” rel=”wp_lightbox_prettyPhoto[image_group1]”>read

Perhaps it just comes down to the way we use the rel= field in WordPress for lightboxes and it not being valid according to W3 standards?

I tried one of tipsandtricks-hq.com pages where there is a group of images in the lightbox and it gets some similar sorts of errors.

I ran this thru the validator http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-affiliate-link-manager/how-to-organize-and-group-multiple-lightbox-anchor-images-in-a-post-or-page-130

It comes back with things like:

character “[” is not allowed in the value of attribute “rel”

…ge3.jpg” rel=”wp_lightbox_prettyPhoto[gallery_view_with_set_of_images]” title…

Thanks for any insight.

[SueParker]

Thanks for replying…

Yes, there are 4 galleries still on the page – I get the errors when I run it thru W3 Validation. I know their WP is terribly old – I am going to recommend they upgrade it. I’ve been brought in to help them with a few things on the site, and that is on my list of recommendations. I was just concerned with the odd errors I was getting with my galleries and worried I did something incorrectly in my code.

[http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fgarymdouglas.com%2Fmedia&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0]

Thanks

Sue

[SueParker]

Thanks for looking Peter…While you were looking I was playing with the psuedo classes and put one on input:required and input:focus. Maybe that did the trick.

[SueParker]

So I played a bit with the pseudo classes in the css and it’s interesting…you can see the border disappear when you go into the field (I added some CSS for :focus)

Am I on the right path?

[SueParker]

Oh yes, I use Firebug all the time and would be lost without it for many reasons!

I wonder…if it has anything to do with pseudo classes or something along that line. And if the browser is thinking the empty fields are invalid on page load?

Here’s a link to the page:

http://melodyraejones.com/blog/join-us/registration

Thanks!

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