Re: div inside div?

On 27 Feb 2003, Jacek Kopecky wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to get my pages, http://jacek.cz/ , to be as
> standards-compliant as possible, so I'm using the validator. My page
> doesn't validate, though, and I don't see why not. The error message is
> not helpful very much - it says
> 
> Line 26, column 20:  document type does not allow element "DIV" here;
> missing one of "OBJECT", "MAP", "BUTTON" start-tag 
>   <div style="noblock"><img class="quickmenuruler" src="img/reddot.png" width="100
>                       ^
> 
> I tried to look at the HTML 4.01
> [http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/sgml/dtd.html] but it
> seems div inside div (after span) is legal.
> 
> Is there a problem in my page or is it a validator bug?

You have an open "span" element from line 18.  "span" can't contain "div".

(I agree that the validator error message is bad.)

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Liam Quinn