Hi,
There a small bug in gitweb html validation, you need the following
patch to pass w3c check with searchbox enabled.
The problem lies in the input directly embed inside a form without a
wrapper which is not valid.
Best regards
The following patch fix the issue for git-2.10.2 :
--- /usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi.orig 2016-11-15 15:37:21.149805026
+0100
+++ /usr/share/gitweb/gitweb.cgi 2016-11-15 15:37:48.579240429
+0100
@@ -5518,6 +5518,7 @@ sub git_project_search_form {
print "<div class=\"projsearch\">\n";
print $cgi->start_form(-method => 'get', -action => $my_uri) .
+ '<div>'.
$cgi->hidden(-name => 'a', -value => 'project_list') .
"\n";
print $cgi->hidden(-name => 'pf', -value => $project_filter).
"\n"
if (defined $project_filter);
@@ -5529,6 +5530,7 @@ sub git_project_search_form {
-checked => $search_use_regexp) .
"</span>\n" .
$cgi->submit(-name => 'btnS', -value => 'Search') .
+ '</div>'.
$cgi->end_form() . "\n" .
$cgi->a({-href => href(project => undef, searchtext =>
undef,
project_filter =>
$project_filter)},