Posted 5 years ago #
When I loaded up my blog this morning I was surprised to see that every post after my third appeared in bold on the main page. When I access each post individually, or go back further in the archives, everything appears as it should. I haven't made any changes recently, so this has really popped up out of nowhere.
Here's my blog so you can see what I'm talking about: http://fjetsam.com/
Any ideas/suggestions?
Sounds like you didn't close a <strong> tag in a post. Most likely the very post where it begins to go bold. I can't load your site, so I can't verify this - but that's usually the issue in these cases - you just forgot to close a tag.
Posted 5 years ago #
thanks for the suggestion. I checked it out and there's no unclosed tags. It seems to be an issue somewhere between the end of the third post and the start of the fourth, as even the title for the fourth post is bolded. Hrmm...
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. :D
Yea - you have an unclosed tag - in fact several problems:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffjetsam.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1
Click on a line number to see what's where.
Yes - you do have an unclosed tag. (I finally got in.) The post before ends with "Continue reading ‘McMenu Madness Part III: Former Menu Items’". It's got the opening <strong> tag - it's not closed.
Posted 5 years ago #
samboll - thank you for that link. Thanks to that I was able to figure out what happened. I had placed the More tag after the bold tag, causing everything on the main page to go bold.
It's all fixed now. :)
I was quite surprised to see such a lengthy list of errors, especially since I have no idea how they would have occurred. Is that a relatively normal number of background issues for a site?
That's a relatively normal number of issues when you don't bother to validate your site and attempt to fix them, yes. You really should validate and fix your theme to be valid. Creating valid code should not be considered optional.
Most of your errors are issues of deprecated tags and semantics. You can go through and fix almost all of those issues quite easily - for example, <center> is deprecated. Replacing the & with & in all instances (even in javascript code), placing LI tags *within* UL or OL, self-closing your image tags - that kind of thing. All simple fixes, really.
Alternatively, you could change your doctype to HTML 4.0 - there's a possibility if you do that that things will *really* get thrown out of whack, though. (But the good news on that is, you can change it right back and work your way through the list if that does happen.)
Posted 5 years ago #
Thanks for the advice. :)
I'm pretty new to a lot of this, but the best way to learn is to fiddle around, so I'll seen what I can do to clean everything up soon and hopefully learn something in the process.
Posted 4 years ago #
Hello,
I had the same problem.
Just went into my code and noticed that I had an unclosed "strong" tag. Closed the tag and this solved my problem! :D
Thanks guys!
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