Title: W3c validation error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# W3c validation error

 *  Resolved [notw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notw/)
 * (@notw)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-error-1/)
 * I got the following message from W3c
    Line 313, Column 17: unclosed start-tag
   requires SHORTTAG YES <div class=”tags”><img src=”[http://www………c…](http://www………c…)
   ✉ The construct <foo<bar> is valid in HTML (it is an example of the rather obscure“
   Shorttags” feature) but its use is not recommended. In most cases, this is a 
   typo that you will want to fix. If you really want to use shorttags, be aware
   that they are not well implemented by browsers.
 * I have modified the single.php file to display an icon for tags with help (I 
   do not know anything beyond css myself), the code for this line is:
 * `<div class="tags"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/
   tag.jpg" alt="<?php _e('Tags', 'jfr_theme') ?>" /><?php the_tags('', ' ', '');?
   ></div>`
 * Something is missing, but what is it and where should it go? would appreciate
   any hints!
 * Thanks!

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## Tags

 * [shorttags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shorttags/)
 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)
 * [W3C](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/w3c/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-validation-error-1/)
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