Title: Problem with “Undeclared entity warning”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem with “Undeclared entity warning”

 *  Resolved [xensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xensen/)
 * (@xensen)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-undeclared-entity-warning/)
 * I’ve been setting up a blog for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (where 
   I work). At the very bottom of the page, below the footer, I am seeing an error
   message that says “Undeclared entity warning at line 282, column 1.” I’ve searched
   for some offending character but haven’t turned up the problem.
 * The theme I am using comes with a few different styles. I believe the problem
   is related to the supplemental style sheet for the flavor I am using (called “
   grey”), but I don’t see what’s wrong with it. (Something about the background
   image maybe?) I will append the css at the end of this post.
 * You can see the problem here: [http://www.asianart.org/blog/](http://www.asianart.org/blog/)
 * Can anyone help?
    __________________________________________________
 * Here’s “grey.css”:
 * body {
    background-image: url([http://www.asianart.org/blog/background-images/zhang-daqian.jpg](http://www.asianart.org/blog/background-images/zhang-daqian.jpg));
   background-repeat: repeat } #menu ul { background: url(grey/menu_bg.gif) repeat-
   x 0 bottom; } #menu ul li a { border-left:1px solid #3a4c2b; } #search { background:
   url(grey/search_block_bg.gif) no-repeat 0 0; } #container { background: url(grey/
   top.gif) no-repeat 0 143px; } .background { background: #F5F5F5 url(grey/content_bg.
   gif) repeat-y right top; } #sidebar .block, #sidebar .adverts{ background: url(
   grey/sidebar_block_top.gif) repeat-x 0 0; } #footer { background: url(grey/footer_bg.
   gif); } #footer .left-col h2 { background: url(grey/footer_element.gif) no-repeat
   right 18px; } #footer .left-col ul li { background: url(grey/footer_line.gif)
   repeat-x left bottom; } #copyright { background: #2b2b2b url(grey/bottom.gif)
   no-repeat left bottom; border-top: #424242 1px solid; color: #80807f; }
 * .post-content a span.read_more {
    color: #97c0f0; }
 * #footer a {
    color: #90938e; }
 * #footer a:hover {
    color: #a6a9a4; }
 * #footer h2 {
    color: #848783; } #sidebar h2 { color:#91938f; } #sidebar .block
   a { color:#676966; } #wp-calendar th{ background:#dfe0df none repeat scroll 0
   0; } #footer #subscribe { color:#e1e2e3; }

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-undeclared-entity-warning/#post-1071623)
 * You’ve got a few serious [validation errors](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asianart.org%2Fblog%2F)
   on the front page – although you can safely ignore all of the errors relating
   to the `embed` element/tag.
 * I can’t see anything immediately or obviously wrong in the CSS and I very much
   doubt that you’d get this kind of error message from an invalid CSS file. A more
   likely culprit is a plugin. Try deactivating all plugins and see if that resolves
   the problem. If it does, activate them again on a one-by-one basis – rechecking
   the site after every reactivation – until you find the culprit.
 *  Thread Starter [xensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xensen/)
 * (@xensen)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-undeclared-entity-warning/#post-1071669)
 * Esmi, you are quire right. This was caused by the “Twitter for WordPress” plugin.
   Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-undeclared-entity-warning/#post-1071669)
 * Status: resolved

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