I am not sure why this throws a validation error and/or what to do about it. The is no self closing tags that I can see. I do not have a style element in the body. Help is appreciated.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></meta>
<title>My title page</title>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var myAnchorVar = '<a href="#">IMA ANCHOR USED IN JAVASCRIPT</a>';
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Produces this validation error;
Line 7, Column 32: document type does not allow element "a" here
var myAnchorVar = '<a href="#">IMA ANCHOR USED IN JAVASCRIPT</a>';
The element named above was found in a context where it is not allowed. This could mean that you have incorrectly nested elements -- such as a "style" element in the "body" section instead of inside "head" -- or two elements that overlap (which is not allowed).
One common cause for this error is the use of XHTML syntax in HTML documents. Due to HTML's rules of implicitly closed elements, this error can create cascading effects. For instance, using XHTML's "self-closing" tags for "meta" and "link" in the "head" section of a HTML document may cause the parser to infer the end of the "head" section and the beginning of the "body" section (where "link" and "meta" are not allowed; hence the reported error).
