Title: Validation error: document type does not allow element “body” here Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Validation error: document type does not allow element “body” here * Resolved [wickensworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wickensworth/) * (@wickensworth) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-document-type-does-not-allow-element-body-here/) * I’m trying to go through my validation report, but am feeling kind of overwhelmed. Here’s the report: [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://ekarj.com/](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://ekarj.com/) * The most crucial error seems to be **document type does not allow element “body” here**. I tried interpreting this in English, and I search around on Google, but to no avail. Anybody have an pointers? Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Thread Starter [wickensworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wickensworth/) * (@wickensworth) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-document-type-does-not-allow-element-body-here/#post-605396) * Here is the offending error: * * **** *

* Thread Starter [wickensworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wickensworth/) * (@wickensworth) * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-document-type-does-not-allow-element-body-here/#post-605409) * Fixed it. Seems like the tag needed to be somewhere in the header. I just fixed that and like 60 other errors after about six hours of confused labor, but I now have a valid XHTML page. Hurray! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Validation error: document type does not allow element “body” here’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Validation error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation-error/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [wickensworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wickensworth/) * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-document-type-does-not-allow-element-body-here/#post-605409) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics