Validation issues with Trailing slash on void elements

[CunningStunt2]

Hi all

I noticed I have a few errors and a lot of info notifications when validating the code on my store, and while I've managed to fix a lot of them; I am struggling to locate the relevant files to fix others. My most common info is "Trailing slash on void elements has no effect and interacts badly with unquoted attribute values."

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=htt...eople.co.uk%2F
https://www.thegluepeople.co.uk/

I have already reduced the number of info alerts a lot by tracking down the lines that needed changing with developer tool kit, but most of the remaining ones seem to come from the category grid, featured products and new products on the main page and I cannot find which file(s) generate those category boxes to remove the trailing slash. I'm assuming I only need to find and remove 1-3 trailing slashes from my code to fix a bunch of the info warnings in one go.

Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction to find the right file(s)? I have tried searching various strings in the dev toolkit and browsed all the template files using ftp/devphp but so far cannot find what I need.

I'm using zencart 1.5.7c and Bootstrap Template v3.1.0

I assumes validation warnings and errors have a negative impact on SEO but i'm not sure about the info ones.

Thanks in advance

[swguy]

for the image ones, modify includes/functions/html_output.php line 272 and change

$image .= ' />';

to

$image .= '>';


The other ones will be similar changes in the same file.

[CunningStunt2]

Thank you very much!