Title: Vaidation issues
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Vaidation issues

 *  Resolved [tomlewek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomlewek/)
 * (@tomlewek)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vaidation-issues/)
 * I’ve used WPCF7 on quite a few sites without a problem and consider myself pretty
   experienced as a wordpress developer, but for some reason my contact form is 
   not validating on this site:
 * [http://acaciainsights.com/](http://acaciainsights.com/)
 * and I’m unsure what’s causing the problem. Any suggestions?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vaidation-issues/#post-5522920)
 * You seem to have inserted `[contact-form-7]` shortcode into another `<form>` 
   element (quoted below) and it makes the HTML structure invalid. Remove the `<
   form>` (I guess it’s in your theme’s template file).
 *     ```
       <form id="message_form" class="m2060" >
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [tomlewek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomlewek/)
 * (@tomlewek)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vaidation-issues/#post-5523056)
 * Great that was it, thanks!

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## Tags

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [tomlewek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomlewek/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vaidation-issues/#post-5523056)
 * Status: resolved