WordPress Fix: Attribute “role” is not a valid attribute

I like to design websites that are W3C Compliant.  Your WordPress theme may require some tweaking to be valid.  One error I kept receiving was: Attribute "role" is not a valid attribute. Did you mean "frameborder" or "scrolling"?  I will show you how to correct this error.  Simply put, to correct the error we are just going to remove the role="search" attribute from your theme's search form.  1. Navigate to your theme folder within your WordPress directory.  2. Open the file containing your search form in the theme. It may be called "searchform.php" or something similar. 3. Remove the role="search" attribute and save.

<form method="" action="/”>
<input type="text" value="” name=”s” id=”s” />

Line 124:

$form = '<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="' . get_option('home') . '/" >

Should now read:

$form = '<form method="get" id="searchform" action="' . get_option('home') . '/" >

4. Replace the file on your web server.

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