Mark-up Validation Help

  • davidjibri

    (@davidjibri)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hey everybody, I need help validating my site. It looks good on my computer, but not on others. Possibly because of resolution differences…not really sure. But anyway, I stumbled upon info to run my url through a validator, when I did that it resulted in 28 errors and 2 warnings. I corrected a few of them like changing </br> by removing the forward slash…that helped my page display some…but then it showed up as an error also! Basically I have a lot of jacked up code in my site that’s beyond my skill set to fix. Please help.

    Here’s the link:
    Validator.w3.org

    What is confusing is that I have all these errors but it shows perfect on my computer but not on my wife’s.

    My site is in a sub directory until it’s ready to be moved into the main directory. http://www.outrightfitness.com/orfwrdps/

    Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • Thread Starter davidjibri

    (@davidjibri)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Well, I’ve managed to make some changes to where my site shows perfectly on my IE and FF with my computer and my wife’s computer…but there’s still validation errors….is this something that “needs” to be corrected?

    linrakesh

    (@linrakesh)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    does your wife runs IE. IE behaves differently and it’s box model is also different. so check out your code against IE. i have seen a lost of developers stress on looks but does not give try to validate their theme against css and xhtml. these two can help your site a lot on seo.

    Thread Starter davidjibri

    (@davidjibri)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    She runs both IE and FF. I managed to correct some code that allows my site to display properly on both our computers on both browsers…but the validator.w3.org site still shows I have 20+ errors.

    I need help correcting these errors. I’ll be happy to correct one.

    Digital Raindrops

    (@adeptris)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Just read the validation errors and look at what they are saying!

    document type does not allow element “li” here; missing one of “ul”, “ol”, “menu”, “dir” start-tag

    The list in the header needs to be nested inside an unordered list You are missing these

      So you have

      <div id="menu">
  <ul>
      <li>List item 1</li>
      <li>List item 2</li>
      <li>List item 3</li>
      <li>List item 4</li>
  </ul>
</div>

      end tag for “br” omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
      You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to “self-close” an element, that is, ending it with “/>” instead of “>”.

      None of the tags are closed should be <br></br> or open <br and close it with />, cannot post here as it causes a new line.

      Fix these and the list should dissapear, or just leave any other html errors!

      HTH

      David

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