closing tag for element </td>

closing tags for element </td>

[amythepoet]

HI,

I am having trouble with the following:

<td id="rightframe"> <p align="center"><a href="order.html"><img src="imagery/order-now.gif" alt="Click Here To Order One Of blue or green widgets" width="200" height="50" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

I get error message saying document type does not permit element <td> in content of element <td> and then it says close tag for element </td> omitted but document type doesn't permit it

[Span]

You would have to check, but it could be that <td id="rightframe"> starts in another <td> that has no </td> closing tag.

[kaled]

<tr> may contain multiple <td> but nothing else.
Though browsers may consider a <td> to be closed by the next <td> <tr>, </tr> or </table>, validation requires each <td> to be explicitly closed using </td>

In your example, it appears that you have closed <td> using </p> - hence the error.

Kaled.

[amythepoet]

Oh, ok, I will try and work it out.

Thank you

[amythepoet]

Still stuck...

[inveni0]

Add </td> before <td id="rightframe">

[tbear]

In the code you pasted at the start of this thread you have no closing </td>.
Perhaps you have others missing too, but the snippet, as is, should have a closing tag
i.e.

<td id="rightframe">
<p align="center">
<a href="order.html">
<img src="imagery/order-now.gif" alt="Click Here To Order One Of blue or green widgets" width="200" height="50" border="0" />
</a>
</p>
<p>
&nbsp;
</p>
</td>

I find indenting my code helps when I am looking for errors such as this. Something I learned from a (now retired) coder of the old school some 10 years ago. ;)

[amythepoet]

Thanks everybody, I have fixed it!

I'm learning so much here, you're a weath of information!

[tbear]

Could you tell us what the problem was, for future reference?

[amythepoet]

Oh, well the problem was my page wasn't validating and I kept going over the lines trying to make sure my tags were closed properly and they weren't.

I'm learning. as we go.

[rocknbil]

Amy I recommend a good editor like Macromedia Homesite, which has validators right in the program. (Select Tools->Validate Current Document.) This will eliminate 95% of your validation errors before you go through the upload and validate process online.

[mcvos]

If you're writing xhtml instead of html, using an xml editor can save you lots of headaches. It will indent your code for you and warn you when you forgot a closing tag. I'm sure there are good editors for html too, but I don't know as much about those.

mcv.