Title: Broken comments page
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Broken comments page

 *  [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc/)
 * (@marc)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-comments-page/)
 * I have had the live preview function installed for about a month with no problem.
 * A week ago I also installed the Nicer Archives plugin. At the time both “preview”
   and the new archives were ok in both Firebird and IE6.
 * I have since noticed in IE6 the comment page is broken. Within the comment box
   is displayed code from the wp-comments.php page and alot of code from narchives.
   php. I have deleted the narchive.php page but it didn’t clear the problem.
 * Obviously one of the two pages is corrupted but when viewing the code it remains
   the same, _plus_ the plugin mod, as the original install.
 * Site can be viewed here: [Cranial Cavity](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-comments-page/cranialcavity.net?output_format=md)

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-comments-page/#post-137390)
 * Odd……
 * The Validator says this:
    `Line 182, column 98: unclosed start-tag requires SHORTTAG
   YES ...abindex="4"onkeyup="ReloadTextDiv();"</textarea>
 * Yet in both IE and FF, I see this code:
    ` <textarea name="comment" id="comment"
   cols="70" rows="8" tabindex="4"onkeyup="ReloadTextDiv();"></textarea> </p>
 * Note the closing > after ReloadTextDiv
 * ————-
 * The code that is displaying in the textarea window clearly suggests that there
   is a problem immediately before the `</p>` tag listed just above.
 * I would have a good look at the code there and maybe remove all indentation, 
   and place tags on their own lines – then hit the validator again. (It shows a
   few more errors but that’s not the point here – it’s also pointing at our target).
 *  Thread Starter [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc/)
 * (@marc)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-comments-page/#post-137392)
 * That was it, the missing closing tag. Thanks!
 * The question remains how did the tag disappear into thin air when I have made
   no changes to that section of code.
 * Oh well it’s repaired that is all that counts. In the mean time I have to find
   the time to fix the rest of the invalid code on that page

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Marc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marc/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-comments-page/#post-137392)
 * Status: not resolved

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