Title: Validation Error: “main” element and “section” element
Last modified: June 11, 2020

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# Validation Error: “main” element and “section” element

 *  [pbatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbatson/)
 * (@pbatson)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-main-element-and-section-element/)
 * Hello,
 * I get some validation errors from the HTML validator at [https://validator.w3.org/nu](https://validator.w3.org/nu)
 * Error: The main element must not appear as a descendant of the section element.
 * This is in the page template files page.php, fullwidth.php and others.
 *     ```
       <section id="primary" class="content-area col-sm-12">
          <main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">
       ```
   
 * Thank you,
    Court

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 *  Theme Author [Afterimage Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afterimagedesigns/)
 * (@afterimagedesigns)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-main-element-and-section-element/#post-13417468)
 * Hi [@pbatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbatson/),
 * Thanks for reaching us out, I will fix this issue on the following update but
   feel free to use a child theme and change the order of the elements to this, 
   to prevent further issues:
 *     ```
       <section id="primary" class="content-area col-sm-12">
          <div id="main" class="site-main" role="main">
       ```
   

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