Missing semicolon in .css ignored

[rdeltour]

From [email protected] on January 24, 2013 12:52:13

PROBLEM: I forgot to terminate a rule in my stylesheet.css with a semicolon, which caused a lot of rendering issues on the Nook. Epubcheck did not catch the missing semicolon, which would have been nice.

METHOD: Something like this:

table {
  width: 100%
  height: 100%;
}

RESULT: No warning issued. Rendering a mess.

EXPECTED: Warning about missing semicolon.

PLATFORM: Epubcheck 3.0 on Mac 10.6.8

java version "1.6.0_37"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_37-b06-434-10M3909)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 20.12-b01-434, mixed mode)

ADDITIONAL INFO: n/a

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/issues/detail?id=243

[rdeltour]

From [email protected] on March 26, 2013 05:32:30

Status: Accepted
Labels: Type-Enhancement

[madevelopers]

I also encountered an issue with ADE not applying my css rules when the stylesheet has syntactic errors. I have captured the errors using w3c validator. It would be helpful if this gets integrated or the same feature be added to epubcheck.

[tofi86]

Confirmed. Still happens with 4.0.2 and current dev version. The following CSS snippet does not throw an error:

table {
  width: 100%
  height: 100%;
}

result:

Validating using EPUB version 3.0.1 rules.
No errors or warnings detected.
epubcheck completed

[rdeltour]

I'm not sure that missing semicolons are strictly a syntax error, as in this case it makes the line par of the previous declaration.

In any case, closing this as duplicate of the meta-issue #981