andymeltonI am trying to validate one of my blogs and W3C keeps reporting a stray </style> tag. I am having trouble finding this so I can remove it. I've disabled my plugins and it still comes back so I'm fairly certain it's not the plugins. W3C Validator states the following:
Line 50, Column 8: end tag for element "style" which is not open .
</style>
The Validator found an end tag for the above element, but that element is not currently open. This is often caused by a leftover end tag from an element that was removed during editing, or by an implicitly closed element (if you have an error related to an element being used where it is not allowed, this is almost certainly the case). In the latter case this error will disappear as soon as you fix the original problem.
Below is the W3C's output of my front page up to line 50 where the stray </style> tag is.
`# <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
# <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr">
#
# <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
# <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
#
# <title>Tech Butter </title><meta name="verify-v1" content="qJp5Z/WmzMfxGnxrx+1ftzuXEbKRKINpbPLry4n7wn0=" />
#
# <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.5.1" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
#
# <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://techbutter.com/wp-content/themes/techbutter2/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
# <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Tech Butter RSS Feed" href="http://techbutter.com/feed/" />
# <link rel="pingback" href="http://techbutter.com/xmlrpc.php" />
#
# <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://techbutter.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />
# <link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="http://techbutter.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" />
# <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.5.1" />
#
# <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://techbutter.com/wp-content/plugins/deans_code_highlighter/geshi.css" type="text/css" />
# <!-- Lightbox Plugin 0.7/2.03.3 -->
# <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://techbutter.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox/css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
# <script type="text/javascript"><!--
# var fileLoadingImage = 'http://techbutter.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox/images/loading.gif';
# var fileBottomNavCloseImage = 'http://techbutter.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox/images/closelabel.gif';
# var resizeSpeed = 7;
# var borderSize = 10;
# var animate = true;
# var overlayOpacity = 0.8;
# //--></script>
# <script type="text/javascript" src="http://techbutter.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox/js/prototype.js"></script>
# <script type="text/javascript" src="http://techbutter.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox/js/effects.js"></script>
# <script type="text/javascript" src="http://techbutter.com/wp-content/plugins/lightbox/js/lightbox.js"></script>
# <!-- /Lightbox Plugin -->
# <!-- WordPress StatCounter Plugin by Luke Stevenson [http://blog.lucanos.com] -->
# <!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
# <script type="text/javascript">
# <!--
# var sc_project=2790125;
# var sc_invisible=1;
# var sc_partition=28;
# var sc_security="e1fa4880";
# var sc_remove_link=1;
# //-->
# </script>
# <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter_xhtml.js"></script>
# <!-- End of StatCounter Code -->
#
# <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://techbutter.com/wp-content/themes/techbutter2/style.css" />
#
# </style>`
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
ClaytonJames