Title: Validation error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Validation error

 *  [shifter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shifter/)
 * (@shifter)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-1/)
 * I am getting an error caused by WP for each comment there is on the comments 
   page. This may not be possible to fix but thought I’d ask. Here is the error:
 * ‘#
 * Line 146, column 9: value of attribute “id” invalid: “2” cannot start a name
 * <li id=”25″>
 * It is possible that you violated the naming convention for this attribute. For
   example, id and name attributes must begin with a letter, not a digit.
 * ✉
    #
 * Line 152, column 9: value of attribute “id” invalid: “2” cannot start a name
 * <li id=”26″>’
 * I seems to be caused by WP’s ID’s for each comment…

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-1/#post-142653)
 * URL please…

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-1/#post-142653)
 * Status: not resolved

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