Switching off Error Messages

[George]

Hi there,

I am a long time Validator customer and currently testing the 7 Beta. It looks much nicer and I am fond of the improvements.

Unfortunately I also encounter issues that are worse than in 6.5. 7 Beta is reporting a whole lot more error messages, some of them quite annoying. For example I am getting the error message:

This table doesn't appear to have the same number of cells in each of its 5 rows. Number of cells in each row, starting with the first row: 6, 5, 5, 5, 5. Note that for the purposes of this message, a table cell with a "colspan" or "rowspan" value greater than 1 is considered to be multiple cells.

All the tables this message is referring to are correct using 'colspan'. Since the page I was checking is script generated it contains a lot of these tables and Validator stopped checking due to too many error messages.

If Validator is not able to figure out cell and row numbers from valid HTML code then leave it alone. I cannot understand that you guys make an error message out of a "guess"! (Compare the error text: "...doesn't appear to have..."). At least turn these issues into a warning message.

Having faced this effect I was trying to look for a way to especially switch this error message of. Unforunately I didn't find anything. The Flags feature seems to be something like that but I was unable to trace this specific error message to its flags number. Text searches through the help page were pretty disappointing.

Suggestion: When reporting an error message indicate the flags number it belongs to. So one can easily switch it off.

Anyways, thanks for a great program that acompanies me for a long time now.

Best regards,
Georg

[Albert Wiersch]

This message was answered elsewhere but I wanted to reply so that the answer is here as well.

Only some messages are controlled by flags, others are controlled by a "message ID". This lets you disable messages on an individual basis instead of as a group. If a message isn't controlled by a flag, then there won't be a number in brackets in front of it (like [10] for flag 10). In this case, the message is probably controlled by a message ID. If it isn't, then the message can't be disabled or changed (this is most common for certain error messages).

When a message has a "message ID". then you can easily disable messages by right-clicking on them in CSE's editor. To disable, right-click on the message and choose Options for this Message->Disable Message. Using this same feature, you can change errors to warnings if you feel that a warning would be better for the message.