Placeholder trouble.

**privatepratz** · 04 August 2009, 11:49 PM

Sledger,
Thats a meta verify for my google account. I was told that I could have more then one placeholder without any problems. So I never thought it was an issue. I can get rid of it.
Thanks for your time,
Mike

**Soquili** · 04 August 2009, 11:53 PM

Mike content of a placeholder can cause issues. But simply having multiple placeholders doesn't cause issues in and of itself.

**steve.ledger** · 05 August 2009, 12:23 AM

Mike go back to Google Webmaster tools and change the verify method to HTML File.
They will generate a name similar to googlec78df909658***.html which you use as the name of a dummy .html file placed in your site root folder.

**covoxer** · 05 August 2009, 06:00 AM

The content of the placeholder should not affect the way it's inserted into the page. So it's a kind of bug.
But the reason is that you have two <head> placeholders on a page.
You can fix the problem simply putting all your code parts into a single <head> placeholder.

BTW Your meta element is not closed thus it is invalid for the XHTML standard. I would suggest adding a slash before the closing ">". Like this:

Code:

<meta name="verify-v1" content="Jm87+NKJSsaXpvaCp2iZkDF5uAQbDzChLWBjozkIw8Q=" />

**steve.ledger** · 05 August 2009, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by covoxer

The content of the placeholder should not affect the way it's inserted into the page. So it's a kind of bug.
But the reason is that you have two <head> placeholders on a page.

John please clarify this comment.
Are you saying that using more than one placeholder on a page named <head> is wrong?

**covoxer** · 05 August 2009, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by sledger

John please clarify this comment.
Are you saying that using more than one placeholder on a page named <head> is wrong?

Well, there's nothing wrong with it. Use as many as you like. But if you don't wan't to encounter this bug, I would suggest you don't.

As you can see from my previous post I have already clarified that this is a bug. It was supposed to work well with multiple <head> placeholders. But as you can see, it doesn't always do. So untill the bug is fixed, it's better to keep all the header code in the single placeholder per page.

But what I was actually saying is that the content of the second placeholder was not a reason of this issue.

**steve.ledger** · 05 August 2009, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by covoxer

But what I was actually saying is that the content of the second placeholder was not a reason of this issue.

Yet removing it fixed the problem, but as you say - a bug.

I tried to repeat this bug in a new blank document, having the two <head> placeholders and the same code as Mikes - but could not get the doubled favicon line to appear.
Could there also be a link with having the favicon <head> placeholder set as a repeating object across multiple (different sized) pages?