Title: XHTML validation errors
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# XHTML validation errors

 *  [itissue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itissue/)
 * (@itissue)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-errors/)
 * I tried validating my index page using [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/).
   It gave me 11 errors, all of which I found to not be errors at all, or at least
   I don’t think they are errors. Can anyone tell me what’s wrong with my code?
 * My URL is [http://suefeng.com](http://suefeng.com)
 * Thanks,
    Sue

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-errors/#post-639765)
 * Some of those errors will cause problems. None of them are to hard to fix either.
 * Fixing this one here will most likely get rid of atleast 3 or 4 cascading errors.
 * > Line 155, Column 41: document type does not allow element “div” here; missing
   > one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag.
 *  Thread Starter [itissue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itissue/)
 * (@itissue)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-errors/#post-639770)
 * I fixed the XHTML validation for the homepage, but there are still errors in 
   other pages. For instance, in the “About” page I got this error:
    ` * Line 1,
   column 3: XML Parsing Error: Start tag expected, '<' not found
 *  ﻿﻿<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.
   w3.
 *  * Line 1, column 0: character "﻿" not allowed in prolog
 *  ﻿﻿<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.
   w3.
 *  How do I fix this error?

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 * Last reply from: [itissue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itissue/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-errors/#post-639770)
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