Title: How do I interpret validation errors? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # How do I interpret validation errors? * [nevermore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nevermore/) * (@nevermore) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-interpret-validation-errors/) * I have a ton of errors, what does line and column mean when looking for the errors in my code? I don’t know how to find them. is there a program i can put the code in and it will show me all the numbers and columns? Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [nevermore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nevermore/) * (@nevermore) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-interpret-validation-errors/#post-341876) * Never mind, i found it * [khimichcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khimichcom/) * (@khimichcom) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-interpret-validation-errors/#post-341877) * You can use any good text editors like UltraEdit, FAR’s internal edit and so on. You can even use windows’ notepad, with Ctrl-G * [niziol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niziol/) * (@niziol) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-interpret-validation-errors/#post-341879) * Greetings fellow Canadian: * Yeap, here is the first page ready to go for you: [75 errors](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leehane.ca%2Fweblog%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&verbose=1). * You can reach it from [http://validator.w3.org](http://validator.w3.org) and just ckeck the options under the validation, like to show source and it will show you where the errors in the generated html are. Let us know if you need any more help. * Cheers, Michael. * Thread Starter [nevermore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nevermore/) * (@nevermore) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-interpret-validation-errors/#post-341882) * ok i found the source at bottom of page but i still dont know how to change the errors. it highlights what the error is but i don’t know what to correct it with. * Thread Starter [nevermore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nevermore/) * (@nevermore) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-interpret-validation-errors/#post-341883) * Oh hi Michael, thanks. I copied and pasted into word2 so i can see all the lines. but i refer to the above again. I haven’t a clue what to replace the errors with.. * [niziol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niziol/) * (@niziol) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-interpret-validation-errors/#post-341980) * Microsoft Word? No, don’t do that – it will cause big problems. Use something like Notepad (a plain text editor). Just work through the validation pages, for example, errors #1 & 2 have to be within the `` and the closing `` tags. The validator is pretty good, just go through it, don’t get over-whelmed, when in doubt, search it out! Once you work through a few you’ll get the hang of it – unfortunately you’ll have to dive into XHTML and learn about the mistakes and fix them, I suppose someone could be paid to do it, but that’s not the best way to do it, even if it takes awhile, in the end you’ll know so much and you won’t look back! * Give it a try, read up on problem areas and if you get really stuck, let us know! * Cheers, Michael. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘How do I interpret validation errors?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/errors/) * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [niziol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niziol/) * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-interpret-validation-errors/#post-341980) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics