- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:09:26 +0200
- To: David Wright <dwright5@nyc.rr.com>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
* David Wright wrote:
>I am trying to validate a file (by uploading). Transitional 4.01
>i have eliminated all error except this one any ideas?
>
> 1:
> 2: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> 3: "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
HTML 4 selected
> 18: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/external.css" />
> 19: </head>
Note the trailing />, this is interpreted as
<link ...><
</head>
in HTML 4. PCDATA is not allowed in <head>, so <head> is closed and
<body> is opened, validator finds </head> and you get
>the error i receive is
> </head>
> ^
>
>Error: end tag for element "HEAD" which is not open; try removing the end
>tag or check for improper nesting of elements
Now it finds <body> while already inside <body> and you get
>* Line 21, column 5:
>
> <body>
> ^
>
>Error: element "BODY" not allowed here; check which elements this element
>may be contained within
HTH,
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