Code Inspections in HTML

This topic lists all GoLand code inspections available in HTML.

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Accessibility

Inspection	Description	Default Severity
Missing associated label	Highlights form elements ( `input` , `textarea` , and `select` ) without required associated labels (WCAG 2.0: H44 ) and offers a quick-fix for creating a new label.	Warning
Missing required 'alt' attribute	Reports a missing `alt` attribute for the `applet` and `img` tags and the `area` elements of image maps (WCAG 2.0: H24 , H35 , H36 , H37 ) and offers a quick-fix for adding the attribute. This attribute should provide a text alternative for the content of the tag.	Warning
Missing required 'lang' attribute	Reports a missing `lang` (or `xml:lang` ) attribute for the `html` tag (WCAG 2.0: H57 ) and offers a quick-fix for adding the attribute. This attribute should state the default language of a document.	Warning
Missing required 'summary' attribute	Reports a missing `summary` attribute for the `table` tag (WCAG 2.0: H73 ) and offers a quick-fix for adding the summary.	Disabled
Missing required 'title' attribute	Highlights `frame` , `iframe` , `dl` , and `a` tags without required title attributes (WCAG 2.0: H33 , H40 , and H64 ) and offers a quick-fix for adding a title.	Disabled
Missing required 'title' element	Reports a missing `title` element inside the `head` section (WCAG 2.0: H25 ) and offers a quick-fix for adding the tag. This title should describe the document.	Warning

Other inspections

Inspection	Description	Default Severity
Anchor reference problems	This inspection checks unresolved anchor references in HTML.	Warning
Deprecated HTML attribute	Highlights attributes deprecated in HTML5.	Warning
Deprecated HTML tag	Highlights deprecated HTML tags and provides ability to replace them with CSS or with other tags for some of them.	Warning
Empty tag	Reports empty tags (like script ) that do not work in some browsers. The validation works in html or jsp file types.	Warning
File reference problems	This inspection checks unresolved file references in HTML.	Warning
Image size mismatch	This inspection highlights `width` and `height` attribute values of `IMG` tag that are different from the width and height of the original image.	Warning
Malformed content of <script> tag	This inspection checks that the script tag content is valid XML.	Error
Missing closing tag	Reports HTML elements without a closing tag. Some coding styles require a closing tag on HTML elements even where this is optional. New in 2017.2	No highlighting, only fix
Missing required attribute	Reports XML/HTML tags with missing mandatory attributes. You can specify attribute names that should not be reported.	Warning
Non-existent web resource	Highlights links to non-existent web resources.	Disabled
Presentational HTML tag	Highlights pure presentational HTML tags and provides the ability to replace them with CSS or with other tags.	Disabled
Redundant closing tag for HTML element	This inspection spots extra closing tag for the empty elements like IMG or BR.	Warning
Unknown HTML boolean tag attribute	This inspection highlights HTML non-boolean tag attributes without value as invalid, and lets mark such attributes as Custom to avoid highlighting them as invalid.	Warning
Unknown HTML tag	This inspection highlights unknown HTML tags, and lets mark such tags as Custom to avoid highlighting them as unknown in future.	Warning
Unknown HTML tag attribute	This inspection highlights unknown HTML tag attributes as invalid, and lets mark such attributes as Custom to avoid highlighting them as invalid.	Warning

Last modified: 14 July 2020