Title: Getting Error in HTML Validator Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Getting Error in HTML Validator * [M A Vinoth Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinoth06/) * (@vinoth06) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/) * Hi friends, Am getting error for my site in HTML Validator. Please check out the error, * > Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 205 it contained > one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes > found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check > both the content of the file and the character encoding indication. > The error was: utf8 “\xBB” does not map to Unicode * Kindly help me to solve this issue. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Thread Starter [M A Vinoth Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinoth06/) * (@vinoth06) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514399) * My site : [http://yobif.com](http://yobif.com) * [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * (@rvoodoo) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514400) * ```
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``` * is line 205…. I’m guessing the breadcrumb separator is the issue? Maybe? * Is that a plugin or part of your theme that establishes the breadcrumbs? * I would use the html entity * ``` » ``` * rather than the actual symbols I guess to see if that is the problem…. if you can do that? I don’t know what options you have available with your breadcrumbs, as far as the arrow/seperator goes * That symbol is definitely the issue. When I visit your site, my browser doesn’t recognize it, so rather than seeing the intended symboil in your breadcrumbs, I see an ugly box. Using the html entity rather than pasting in the actual symbol will fix all of that * Thread Starter [M A Vinoth Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinoth06/) * (@vinoth06) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514401) * Hi Rev voodoo, * Thanks for your reply. Actually breadcrumb is a function and even I have disabled. But still am facing the same problem. * [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * (@rvoodoo) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514404) * Same problem. * ``` 12345 » Last
``` * Notice in your pagination there, your theme uses that same seperator. Once again, the html entity should be used rather than the literal character if you want validation * (you’ll notice after turning off the breadcrumb, the error moved to line 333, where your pagination is) * Thread Starter [M A Vinoth Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinoth06/) * (@vinoth06) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514406) * I have deleted the pagination.. But still am facing the problem.. 🙁 * [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * (@rvoodoo) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514413) * HM…. now I have no idea why it’s choking on that line. * Is this a theme you just uploaded, or have you been making any modifications to things? * I’m just wondering if you are introducing encoding errors when editing. * If you are doing editing, is it through the WP editor, or through some program? * Thread Starter [M A Vinoth Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinoth06/) * (@vinoth06) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514414) * Last weeks I didn’t do any modification in theme. But updated many plugins. * [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * (@rvoodoo) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514417) * Hmmm… the theme name is desire, correct? * I just installed it, and I’m not having the same problems you are. * One thing I did change which got rid of several errors, * in header.php I changed: * ``` ``` * to just * ``` ``` * Not sure if that will help you at all. Have you done many modifications to the theme? It may be best to just switch to 2011 for a moment, delete the desire theme, and then reinstall it. * As I said, when I just installed the theme, I am not having any of the issues you are having. * Thread Starter [M A Vinoth Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinoth06/) * (@vinoth06) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514427) * Ok. Thanks for your solution. Let me delete the old one and update to new one. Nice support. Thanks again Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Getting Error in HTML Validator’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [html validator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html-validator/) * 9 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [M A Vinoth Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinoth06/) * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-in-html-validator/#post-2514427) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics