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Most likely, you nested tags and closed them in the wrong order. For example
...
is not acceptable, as
must be closed before . Acceptable nesting is:
...
Another possibility is that you used an element which requires a child element that you did not include. Hence the parent element is "not finished", not complete. For instance, in HTML the element must contain a child element, lists require appropriate list items (<ul> and <ol> require <li>; <dl> requires <dt> and <dd>), and so on.
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* here is the sect of code it came from:
* ```
<div class="column-middle">
<div class="footer-sidebar">
<ul id="footer-sidebar">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('Footer Sidebar') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
```
* the entire file is here:
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* please help
jb
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* [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
* (@esmi)
* [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validator-error-no/#post-1804799)
* `<ul id="footer-sidebar"></ul>`
* There’s no `<li></li>` tags
* Thread Starter [jbskaggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbskaggs/)
* (@jbskaggs)
* [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validator-error-no/#post-1804806)
* thank you now I get:
This document was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
* Which means all the errors it found are fixed! Thanks for helping a noob like
me.
* JB
* [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
* (@esmi)
* [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validator-error-no/#post-1804825)
* No problems 🙂
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