[richfaces-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (RF-6828) Empty rich:messages breaks xhtml validation

Empty rich:messages breaks xhtml validation ------------------------------------------- Key: RF-6828 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RF-6828 Project: RichFaces Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.3.0 Reporter: Samuel Mendenhall Assignee: Nick Belaevski Priority: Minor Fix For: 3.3.1 When using rich:messages but there is no message the generated code looks like: <dl id="messages" class="rich-messages message" style="display: none; null"></dl> Which breaks xhtml validation with the message: line 168 column 106 - Error: end tag for "dl" which is not finished with cause description: "You have probably failed to include a required child element. Hence the parent element is "not finished", not complete. " The SGML parser was being using in a validation plugin in Firefox.