Rogue Quotation Mark

-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.swiftplantspares.com/jcb-parts/part/...x-assembly-460-92850
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.3
-- Joomla version -- : 3.2.7

Hi -

I have a very strange problem on product pages. A quotation mark is being added before a <table> on the product page. I can not find where it is coming from! It's not even in the source code when I view source, yet is still there if I disable JS and CSS!

The page is at:
www.swiftplantspares.com/jcb-parts/part/...x-assembly-460-92850

The quote is on the right, just above the product info table.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated! I have added a comment in the overridden product_block_dimensions template right before the opening <table> so it is not from the template. And anyway then it would be in the source code!

Here is the line from the overridden template:

echo "<!-- Testing the rogue quote! --><table class=\"product_info\">";

And it gets inserted in there, just before the <table.

Confused!

Thanks
Nigel

Sorry this should have been in Category and Product display. I always forget the new topic button doesn't remember the category! Sorry. Could a moderator please move it?

Hi,

This is what I'm getting in Safari when following your link:

Sure. Sensible to stay away! This issue was resolved this morning but the warning is in review (it's gone for me - thought same for all). I will update here once Google's review is complete. Thanks.

I just got the email from Google saying the review is complete, so that message should be gone for you now. Would be interested to know if it has, if you wouldn't mind letting me know. Thanks.

Yup, no more warning.

The quotation mark might be coming from a customization, probably in the view "product / show_block_custom_main".

You may also check the page with the W3 Markup Validator: validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fww...x-assembly-460-92850
It gives you a "fatal error" from this or yet another quotation mark.

You have JS errors on that page, too.

So, a few thorough reviews and checks are in order. However, nothing coming from HikaShop.

Hi nicolas,

Thanks for this. I agree, it is hard to say where it might be coming from. I'm really looking just for help more than anything else, or some pointers. The first place I looked was show_default, and then moved on to my customised (by me) show_block_dimensions. That is where the table is that the quotation mark is appearing before.

But what I perhaps didn't make clear in my original post, is that I added a comment just before the start of that table in the templates, in the same string that is echo'd, and the quotation mark STILL gets inserted between the table and the comment.

Here is the code snippet with some surrounding code:

<?php echo JText::_('PRODUCT_HEIGHT').': '.rtrim(rtrim($this->element->product_height,'0'),',.').' '.JText::_($this->element->product_dimension_unit); ?><br />
	</span>
<?php
}

echo "<!-- Testing the rogue quote! --><table class=\"product_info\">";

if($this->config->get('manufacturer_display', 0) && !empty($this->element->product_manufacturer_id)){
	$class = hikashop_get('class.category');
	$manufacturer = $class->get($this->element->product_manufacturer_id);

That's great Nicolas, thank you. I will be having a look at this soon.

I managed to track down the culprit! It was in fact a rogue quotation mark in that template file. It was actually on a table row towards the end of the table, and the Firefox document inspector was moving it to just before the opening <table> tag, because of it being invalid just before a "<tr>". So that is why it was still there with CSS and JS off, yet not visible in the source code (or at least not visible where it was showing on the page). I have learned something!

Thanks for the help! Much appreciated and this thread is a good reference for future HikaShop debugging!