Title: Html errors
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Html errors

 *  [susiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susiej/)
 * (@susiej)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/)
 * Can someone please take a look to find out why I create so many html errors when
   I post to my site? It’s at [http://www.susiej.com/wordpress](http://www.susiej.com/wordpress)
   
   Thanks

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488379)
 * Mainly 2 things:
    – in the code you got from amazon and any third party you should
   replace every “&” with `&` (that will cvut half of the errors) – the other
   half is caused by your `<font>` tags. There is no need to thinker with those…
 * BTW, there is always a description of the error, followed by a suggestion how
   to fix it. And if you check the Show Source box and click Revalidate > every 
   error line will become a link taking you to the exact location of the error in
   your source code.
 *  Thread Starter [susiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susiej/)
 * (@susiej)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488385)
 * Thank you! To fix the font tags, do I need to delete every entry and retype them—
   or can I just go into the “edit Post” click on the html editor and delete the
   font tags?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488387)
 * You can delete just the font tags. It is even easier if you disable the wysiwyg
   monster 🙂
    (admin > Users > Your profile – left bottom corner)
 *  Thread Starter [susiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susiej/)
 * (@susiej)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488389)
 * Thanks — very happy!
 *  [inspired2write](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspired2write/)
 * (@inspired2write)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488393)
 * Hi,
    I’ve had some of the same mark-up validation problems with links from Amazon,
   and also with my stat counter code from Dreamhost.
 * Is there not a code to wrap around those to fix the problem so they validate?
 *  Thread Starter [susiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susiej/)
 * (@susiej)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488405)
 * Hi, I just replaced every & with &amp in the Amazon code, and now instead of 
   the link, it shows a corner of the white internet page that says “this site is
   unavilable” instead of the link. [http://www.susiej.com/wordpress](http://www.susiej.com/wordpress).
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488409)
 * > Is there not a code to wrap around those to fix the problem so they validate?
 * Not really. The code Amazon generates (as do many, many other sites) is invalid
   XHTML. Doesn’t get much more simple than that. Really the best you can do is 
   to correct the problems in their code.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488411)
 * susiej: Not “&amp”. The correct code is “&amp;”. The ending semicolon is important.
 *  Thread Starter [susiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susiej/)
 * (@susiej)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488417)
 * Ok — got that. Fixed that, but what is the “src” error I’m gettiing in the Amazon
   code?
 *  [inspired2write](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspired2write/)
 * (@inspired2write)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488427)
 * Thanks Otto42…
 * for pointing out the correct code is & including the semi-colon. I missed that
   on correcting my stat counter codes, but now that I added it in correctly I’ve
   eliminated all but one error in my stat counter code.
 * Susiej,
 * Did you get the ‘src’ error corrected? It looks like you have all your Amazon
   links up and working now.
 *  Thread Starter [susiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susiej/)
 * (@susiej)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488449)
 * I’m still getting the errors when I run the check. However the links are shwoing
   up OK. Is it OK to have these errors?

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-errors/#post-488449)
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