Title: Problems in Markup Validation
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problems in Markup Validation

 *  [mejiwara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mejiwara/)
 * (@mejiwara)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-in-markup-validation/)
 * I always get these errors. How can I get rid of this? Please help..
 * Line 167, Column 140: “Stay” is not a member of a group specified for any attribute
 * …compliance/” rel=”bookmark” title=”” Stay in Compliance”>Stay in Compliance
 * ✉
    Error Line 167, Column 143: “in” is not a member of a group specified for 
   any attribute
 * …compliance/” rel=”bookmark” title=”” Stay in Compliance”>Stay in Compliance
 * ✉
    Error Line 167, Column 153: an attribute value literal can occur in an attribute
   specification list only after a VI delimiter
 * …compliance/” rel=”bookmark” title=”” Stay in Compliance”>Stay in Compliance
 * ✉
 * Have you forgotten the “equal” sign marking the separation between the attribute
   and its declared value? Typical syntax is attribute=”value”.
    Error Line 174,
   Column 152: “Do” is not a member of a group specified for any attribute
 * …l-states/” rel=”bookmark” title=”” Do Business in Additional States”>Do Busine…
 * ✉
    Error Line 174, Column 161: “Business” is not a member of a group specified
   for any attribute
 * …” rel=”bookmark” title=”” Do Business in Additional States”>Do Business in Add…
 * ✉
    Error Line 174, Column 164: “in” is not a member of a group specified for 
   any attribute
 * …el=”bookmark” title=”” Do Business in Additional States”>Do Business in Additi…
 * ✉
    Error Line 174, Column 175: “Additional” is not a member of a group specified
   for any attribute
 * …k” title=”” Do Business in Additional States”>Do Business in Additional States…
 * ✉
    Error Line 174, Column 181: an attribute value literal can occur in an attribute
   specification list only after a VI delimiter
 * …title=”” Do Business in Additional States”>Do Business in Additional States
 * ✉
 * Have you forgotten the “equal” sign marking the separation between the attribute
   and its declared value? Typical syntax is attribute=”value”.
    Error Line 181,
   Column 160: “Employer” is not a member of a group specified for any attribute
 * …in/” rel=”bookmark” title=”” Employer Identification Number (EIN)”>Employer 
   Id…
 * ✉
    Error Line 181, Column 175: “Identification” is not a member of a group specified
   for any attribute
 * …ark” title=”” Employer Identification Number (EIN)”>Employer Identification 
   Nu…
 * ✉
    Error Line 181, Column 182: “Number” is not a member of a group specified 
   for any attribute
 * …tle=”” Employer Identification Number (EIN)”>Employer Identification Number (
   E…

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 *  Thread Starter [mejiwara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mejiwara/)
 * (@mejiwara)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-in-markup-validation/#post-2946716)
 * Im still newbie on validation, please help.. I get the same errors on different
   posts.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-in-markup-validation/#post-2946769)
 * what theme are you using?
 * there is an error here:
    `title=""` where the title attribute is closed to early.
 * without knowing the theme or seeing your site live, there is no way to find out
   where this is coming from.

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 * [markup](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/markup/)
 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)

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 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-in-markup-validation/#post-2946769)
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