Title: HTML errors
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# HTML errors

 *  Resolved [jen697](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jen697/)
 * (@jen697)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors-2/)
 * The sitemap plugin appears to be causing 6 html errors that appear to be sloppy
   code. I’m validating in HTML5. Can these be cleaned up? Thanks!
 * Line 67, Column 22: End tag p implied, but there were open elements.
    <div class
   =ss_wrapper>
 * Line 66, Column 6: Unclosed element b.
    <p><b>
 * Line 68, Column 17: Element div not allowed as child of element b in this context.(
   Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)
    <div id=ss_pages>
 * Line 87, Column 17: Element div not allowed as child of element b in this context.(
   Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)
    <div id=ss_posts>
 * Line 96, Column 6: End tag div seen, but there were open elements.
    </div>
 * Line 97, Column 8: No p element in scope but a p end tag seen.
    </b></p>
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-sitemap/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-sitemap/)

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 *  Plugin Author [David Gwyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgwyer/)
 * (@dgwyer)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors-2/#post-3822849)
 * I just ran a page with Simple Sitemap (1.52) running on it through two separate
   HTML5 validators and didn’t come up with the errors you posted.
 *  Thread Starter [jen697](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jen697/)
 * (@jen697)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors-2/#post-3822891)
 * Hi David,
 * Here is where I am seeing the errors. We always install plugins on a clean test
   site first. I compare a blank page with the sitemap page. You can see the blank
   page has 2 errors and the sitemap page has 8. The only difference between the
   two pages is the addition of the sitemap shortcode.
 * Blank page:
    [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vitopianseo.com%2Fblank%2F](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vitopianseo.com%2Fblank%2F)
 * Sitemap page:
    [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vitopianseo.com%2Fsitemap%2F](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vitopianseo.com%2Fsitemap%2F)
 * Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [David Gwyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgwyer/)
 * (@dgwyer)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors-2/#post-3822896)
 * Most of the reported errors are due to your theme wrapping the Simple Sitemap
   code inside a paragraph and bold html tags. This isn’t part of the Plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [jen697](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jen697/)
 * (@jen697)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors-2/#post-3822898)
 * Thanks for clearing that up for me David.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors-2/#post-3822898)
 * Status: resolved