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Re: Error relating to list within paragraph

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:36:27 +0000
To: Vernon <Vernon@UpperAirSpace.com>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <65C7B532-B520-41AF-98EB-A0F9E8DAA957@dorward.me.uk>
On 15 Mar 2015, at 8:17, Vernon wrote:
>
> The message said that the </p> at the end of this structure had been
> found but was not preceded by a <p> tag.  I circumvented the problem
> -- what ever it might have been -- by commenting out the closing </p>
> tag, whereupon the validator gave me a 'clean bill of health' (so to
> speak).

The end tag for a paragraph is optional and a paragraph may not contain a list. 

The ul start tag implicitly ends the paragraph. Therefore, there is no open paragraph for the paragraph end tag to end.

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David Dorward
http://dorward.co.uk/
Received on Monday, 16 March 2015 08:37:08 UTC

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