- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:22:39 -0500 (EST)
- To: brjones3@vt.edu, www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:46:55 -0500 (EST), brjones3@vt.edu wrote:
>
> I have the following list:
> <ul>
> <li>
> <b>Heading 1</b><br>
> Description
> </li>
> <ul>
> <li><b>SubHeading 1</b></li>
[cut]
> </ul>
> </ul>
>
> With the </li> this will not validate correctly. If I comment out the </li>
> it validates fine. Is there a problem with the validator?
No. The problem is that nested UL elements belong within an LI element.
In other words, your indentation is misleading -- it's not showing the
valid tree structure, which is:
<ul>
<li>
Heading 1
<ul>
<li>SubHeading 1</li>
[cut]
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
-David
L. David Baron Sophomore, Harvard (Physics) dbaron@fas.harvard.edu
Links, SatPix, CSS, etc. <URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ >
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