Title: Invalid HTML
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Invalid HTML

 *  [ssinno28](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssinno28/)
 * (@ssinno28)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-html/)
 * Hello,
 * I recently integrated a WordPress Blog into my website so it flows seamlessly(
   [My Blog](http://www.mdslandscape.com/blog)). I took the **classic theme** and
   manipulated it until it looked the way i wanted it to. When I go to validate 
   the website I get a lot of unexpected errors, all not related to what I changed.
   I did not change any of the php markup, I reinstalled the new 3.2.1 WordPress,
   and changed the html5 tags back to divs, but still I am having no luck with validating
   my blog. A lot of the invalid HTML seem to be HTML attributes that are generated
   by the php functions at run time. I just want to know if it is something that
   I may have changed? Should I be using another template to create my own theme?
 * Thanks,
    Sam Sinno

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-html/#post-2198693)
 * The HTML 5 DOCTYPE has not yet been formalised. Both it and any associated validators
   should be considered experimental.
 *  Thread Starter [ssinno28](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssinno28/)
 * (@ssinno28)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-html/#post-2198955)
 * So your saying that I should not be concerned if the blog does not generate valid
   HTML? I understand that the HTML5 validator is experimental, but I thought the
   previous versions were accurate (I am using XHTML for the blog). I use this site
   to validate my websites: [http://validator.w3.org](http://validator.w3.org).
 * Does anyone else have trouble generating valid HTML on their blogs?
 * Should I be concerned about the errors considering how search engine spiders 
   may react to the site?
 *  Thread Starter [ssinno28](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssinno28/)
 * (@ssinno28)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-html/#post-2198960)
 * I actually got it to pass, there were some odd errors generating that I did not
   understand until I worked with it a bit. I passed it as XHTML Strict.

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 * [invalid html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/invalid-html/)

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 * Last reply from: [ssinno28](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssinno28/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-html/#post-2198960)
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