Title: Validation errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Validation errors

 *  Resolved [storyboutagirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/storyboutagirl/)
 * (@storyboutagirl)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-8/)
 * I have a number of validation errors on my page that have to do with the sidebar
   widgets. For example:
 * Line 145, Column 13: document type does not allow element “h2” here; assuming
   missing “li” start-tag
    `<h2>Subscribe By Email</h2> <div class="textwidget">
   <br /><form styl…`
 * How would I fix these as it’s in error in the output for the widgetized sidebars?
   And I don’t have any way to change them in the theme…

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-8/#post-1488416)
 * It’s an issue with the theme. Try looking in the theme’s function.php file for
   register_sidebar() and ensure that it is adding list markup before and after 
   the widgets:
 * Eg:
 *     ```
       if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
       	register_sidebar(array(
       		'name'=> 'Main menu',
       		'id' => ',main',
       		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
       		'after_widget' => '</li>',
       	));
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [storyboutagirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/storyboutagirl/)
 * (@storyboutagirl)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-8/#post-1488655)
 * Thank you

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## Tags

 * [erros](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/erros/)
 * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/)
 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)
 * [widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widgets/)

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 * Last reply from: [storyboutagirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/storyboutagirl/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-8/#post-1488655)
 * Status: resolved

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