HTML validator question

should i be worried

[DJFlite]

At the suggestion of a fellow WebmasterWorld user, I have began to use HTML Validator to validate my html.

It seems to be giving me a lot of errors about amperstands in links, saying they are not good. However, these links are from affiliate sites and the amp is part of the html. It also says I havent closed tags (like center) that I did close, just much later in the doc.

Should I try to fix these errors or just leave them alone. My page comes up fine on every browser Ive ever encountered.

[PatrickDeese]

FWIW - I usually validate prior to inserting affilate links - you can't change them, if you did chances are your aff sales wouldn't get tracked any longer.

As far as I am concerned, as long as my template validates, my responsibilities have ended.

[pageoneresults]

Most of those errors are due to unescaped ampersands. Escape them and they will go away without any problems with the affiliate URIs.

& should be &

[g1smd]

The closing tag thing... if you have incorrectly nested tags then fix them.

If the closing tags are within javascript document.write statements then you need to simply escape the closing / in the tag, so that stuff like </a> becomes <\/a> and tags like </td></tr> become <\/td><\/tr> and so on.