Title: Validating A Site
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Validating A Site

 *  [med103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/med103/)
 * (@med103)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-site/)
 * Hello,
    I’ve read through the codex page on validating a site, I understand XHTML
   and CSS, however it seems like no matter what I do I can’t get my site [http://www.michaeldoig.net](http://www.michaeldoig.net)
   to validate. The CSS fails because it says I need to validate my XML file and
   the XHTML fails because of some javascript I have. Can anyone give me some advice
   on both getting it to validate and figuring out the cryptic messages the validator
   returns. Thanks, Mike

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 *  [zerok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerok/)
 * (@zerok)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-site/#post-368679)
 * Well, JavaScript normally belongs between
 * `<script type="text/javascript">
    <!--
 * and
    `//--> </script>
 * Sometimes you will also see something like this:
 * `<script type="text/javascript">
    // <![CDATA[
 * // ]]>
    </script>
 * You also have things like
    `<h1><a href=“”?PHPSESSID=e11072c710c6dc7fed25a9321d5b13f5
   >Michael Doig - An Intelligent Mix Of Design And Marketing</a></h1>`where the
   value is actually after the quotes and the quotes are not normal ” but some other
   UTF-8 characters.
 * There are also quite a few <input/>s lacking the / at the end 🙂
 *  [lxg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mastermind/)
 * (@mastermind)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-site/#post-368680)
 * 1. Your Blog title seems to contain strange characters. Possibly you have specified
   a wrong charset in the WP options or you use invalid characters.
 * 2. The JS should look like this:
    ` <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[
   alert('This is my JS!'); //]]> </script>
 * i.e. marked as CDATA properly.
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-site/#post-368713)
 * Sometimes one little error will cause a cascade of errors unrelated. Most times
   those will fix themselves after fixinf the first one.
 * The first thing I’d do is open your template and look to see where the site header(
   the first h1 tag) is listed and change those funny quotes into regular ones.
 * –tg
 *  Thread Starter [med103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/med103/)
 * (@med103)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-site/#post-368910)
 * Thanks everyone, I think I needed a second set of eyes to look over that and 
   get me on track. I fixed a bunch of them, however I can’t seem to get these last
   few errors to go away. There is something weird with the form and table elements
   and I’ve checked and double checked the code where it says I’m missing end tags
   and they’re in my template so I’m not sure how to fix them. Once again thank 
   you for any advice.
    Mike
 *  Thread Starter [med103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/med103/)
 * (@med103)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-site/#post-368920)
 * I think I’ve got the hang of it now. I think I was getting confused with the 
   way it was revealing the errors. I was looking for < or > tags and in reality
   it was a whole </div> tag. Thanks again.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-site/#post-368920)
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