`
* try that and see if you’re still getting errors…
* Thread Starter [sphyr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sphyr/)
* (@sphyr)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250063)
* Didn’t work. 🙁
* I think the [ul] for those are up top at the [div id=”sidebar”]. I re-counted,
re-paired all the li’s and ul’s in the sidebar.php and they all seem to close,
but it still doesn’t validate.
* [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
* (@tomhanna)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250099)
* You have 111 errors, not 1.
* [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fchasingthewind.net%2F](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fchasingthewind.net%2F)
* Looks like you have some unclosed `` tags and your unclosed `
` tags are
in posts. If you remember to hit the “Close Tags” quicktag before posting, you
can eliminate some of that. Are you entering those tags manually? WordPress normally
closes them when it inserts them.
* Thread Starter [sphyr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sphyr/)
* (@sphyr)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250107)
* Er, thanks, but that’s not quite it. I’m convinced the 111 errors are actually
1 misplaced error in the sidebar. Most of those 111 errors occur within the posts
on the front page, yet if I switch to the default WordPress Kubrick theme, all
the posts validate with no errors.
* [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
* (@tomhanna)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250127)
* Actually most of the errors are fairly simple things that have nothing to do
with the lists. You have a lot of border=0 that should be border=”0″, for example.
If you fix those, it will be easier to track down the _real_ problem.
* I cut and pasted just the code from your sidebar in the validator.w3.org “Validate
by Direct Input” and while it had 50 errors, they were none of them related to`
` or `` tags. They were almost entirely things like unescaped ampersands
in javascripts and things related to the use of tables.
* [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
* (@tomhanna)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250129)
* nevermind.
* Thread Starter [sphyr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sphyr/)
* (@sphyr)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250191)
* How do you “paste the code from my sidebar?” That validator doesn’t work on php
files.
* [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
* (@tomhanna)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250275)
* I don’t have your php file. The php file outputs HTML, which is what the browsers
actually read and also what any validator that you input your URL into is going
to see. Or if you click that “Valid XHTML” link on your blog, the validator will
see the HTML that your server outputs, not the raw PHP file. I just did view
page source, copy, paste.
* [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
* (@viper007bond)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250276)
* Validate the whole page, not just your sidebar. It won’t correctly determine
the document type if you just do partial HTML.
* Anyway, just use the W3 Validator that was linked to above and do as it suggests.
* [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
* (@tomhanna)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250306)
* ViperBond,Sphyr convinced the error is in his sidebar and is an error related
to a misplaced list tag of some sort. Sphyr won’t even look at the multiple errors
elsewhere on the page, which is why I did the validation separately for just
the sidebar. But ultimately the solution is to go through and fix the simple
things like border=0 instead of border=”0″ in the whole page and get the list
down to a manageable size.
* And the validator offers the option to specify the document type.
* [tomhanna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomhanna/)
* (@tomhanna)
* [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tracking-down-an-html-error/#post-250307)
* Sphyr – if you can change two things it will cut your errors down to 36.
* In your Header template file change this:
* ``
* to
* `
* And change this:
* ``
* to this:
* ``
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