Title: Validation (again)
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Validation (again)
* [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
* (@gangleri)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-again/)
* I’m working on a new theme and of course I’ve got a few things put in during
my trial-and-error coding that the Validator doesn’t like:
* > ``
* That dash can’t be there like that, but I want something to divide the pages
from the “blogroll”. How should I ‘wrap it up’?
* Also, I get this error form W3:
* > Line 398, Column 4: document type does not allow element “li” here; missing
> one of “ul”, “ol”, “menu”, “dir” start-tag.
> `book reviews`
* And that error for every link from the “blogroll”. I _did_ use `ul`, but I suppose
I forgot something else (in the stylesheet perhaps?).
* There are some other errors, but I guess most of them disappear when the things
above are solved.
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* [EyePhoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyephoto/)
* (@eyephoto)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-again/#post-748538)
* 1. Just use a `
` maybe.
2. Did you close the `` ?
* [jberghem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jberghem/)
* (@jberghem)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-again/#post-748545)
* I would have to see the generated code. I’m still not that familiar with what
XHTML code WordPress generates with `wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1')` & `wp_list_bookmarks('
title_li=&categorize=0')`
* As for the other error on Line 398;
the code you listed is correct I would have
to see the XHTML around it. You could have an error in the element directly above
it.
* If I could look at the entire generated page I’ll be able to spot the error.
* There can be nothing in the CSS file that influences XHTML validation. CSS and
XHTML are completely separate. XHTML defines what it is, CSS defines what it
looks like. Just like putting a dress on a man doesn’t change him into a woman
it only makes him look like a woman.
* NB. using inline CSS may screw-up your XHTML syntax and cause it not to validate,
but then again inline CSS defeats the whole purpose of CSS so why use it?
* Thread Starter [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
* (@gangleri)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-again/#post-748650)
* > 1. Just use a `
` maybe.
* Well, it’s a horizontal navigation, so that’s not really an option. I think I
have to put some code around the dash, but I wouldn’t know what.
* > 2. Did you close the
> `` ?
* Yes, but somehow they fell out of my code that I pasted above.
* > I would have to see the generated code.
* Do you mean the source as seen in a browser? That’s:
* ```
```
* [jberghem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jberghem/)
* (@jberghem)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-again/#post-748680)
* Yes I mean the source from the browser, But the whole page, not just the hmenu
div. The validation error could be in an other area, somewhere above it. Do you
have it running somewhere on a test server or somewhere where I can see it in
action?
* Thread Starter [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
* (@gangleri)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-again/#post-748705)
* It’s on five places (six actually). [Here](http://www.gangleri.nl/filmreviews)‘
s one.
* [jberghem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jberghem/)
* (@jberghem)
* [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-again/#post-748762)
* Sorry for keeping you waiting.
* There are actually only 3 mistakes in the XHTML. But they throw things off so
that the validator finds 10. Solve these little problems and your page will validate.
* Line 71 There’s a lost ” – ” in the menu list between section intro and articles.
Just move it over inside the `- `. [ like this `
- -