Title: XHTML validation problem Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # XHTML validation problem * [userx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/userx/) * (@userx) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/) * Hey all – * I get the following error when I try to validate: * “Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 362 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.” * Here’s lines 360 – 368: * –> * Anybody know what is causing this? It was fine before I went to Strayhorn. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162123) * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.progressiveink.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1&verbose=1](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.progressiveink.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1&verbose=1) * That is your page validated as the validator sees it – you and it are looking at different lines. The actual problem is in the sidebar; “with undesirables and announcing God�s unconditional love freely to” * Thread Starter [userx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/userx/) * (@userx) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162130) * Thanks podz … got it validating again. * [polimom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polimom/) * (@polimom) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162800) * Help! I have exactly the same problem, but I can’t tell where the error is to save my life! The validator isn’t letting me see its version of the lines, so I’m pulling my hair out… * [http://www.polimom.com](http://www.polimom.com) * My error: Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 272, 275, 278, 305, 329 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8( in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162801) * Polimom: easy way – * Check the box next to show source, then revalidate. This provides a link to the relevant lines and from seeing them in situ as it were you may be able to figure out where they really live. * Better way – * Open your blog main page in your browser, and use whatever your browser offers for “view source”. Will open in a notepad window or some such. Copy the source output to a file and save it. * Now go download notepad2 from [http://flos-freeware.ch](http://flos-freeware.ch)( it’s free….). Install it. Open the source from your save operation in notepad2. In the menus at the top is a selection to “show line numbers”. Activate that. * Now you should see the line numbers that the validator is using. You’ll still have to figure out where the different theme files are “living” in the mass of numbers…. (And notepad2 is a wonderful little editor too….) * [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/) * (@lesbessant) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162802) * Have a look at your “Can you see the future” post. There are characters there that Firefox is showing as “question mark in a black diamond”, which means they aren’t part of the usual character set. At a guess, it’s closing quotes being rendered as fancy curved quotes of some kind. * [polimom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polimom/) * (@polimom) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162803) * Hi vkaryl – * Can’t get the validator to show me the source… but I used the notepad2, and find myself singularly unenlightened by what I find. I tried to validate the main page ([http://www.polimom.com](http://www.polimom.com)). The lines to which it referred are: * Line 301: –> * Line 304:
* Line 307: Islamophobia? * Line 334: ` – * so you want that to look like: * `` * And you probably will need to change the relevant area in your blog admin options section too. * As Les Bessant points out, you’ve got some “unusual” characters. Whatever you’re using to write your posts is adding fancy-dancy endquotes etc. Try the charset change and see if that fixes the problem, or at least part of it. If it does, then we can address how to manage the problem in future. * [polimom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polimom/) * (@polimom) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162805) * Wow! That was too strange. * Les, that was a great spot. I’ve been staring at this for 2 days and didn’t see it (darned trees in that big forest!) * So – there were three posts with oddball characters, all of which had done something strange with some quotation marks (but not all). Fixing those has me back in validation-land, with my one error that is slowly driving me insane, but so far not breaking things. * vkaryl – I write my posts directly into the admin “write” interface. I use the WYSIWYG in combination w/ the HTML pop-up. I’ve not used an external editor or anything else. * That charset isn’t looking good, btw. (ack!) * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162806) * Okay, sometimes that helps and sometimes it doesn’t. I wouldn’t use the wysiwyg for that reason among others. I’m not going to get into a bunch of recriminations on that, but likeliest thing is that the reason you HAVE those “oddball” characters is BECAUSE of the wysiwyg (which is really NOT a great example of what’s available in that direction, btw.) * So what’s the last error? * [polimom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polimom/) * (@polimom) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162807) * The last error is: * document type does not allow element “noscript” here * It’s in the sidebar – should have been pretty inoffensive, but guess not. * Re: the WYSIWYG… yup. No doubt I’ll be killing that. lol. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162808) * Hmm. Gotta go look again…. I’m thinking you’ll need CDATA tags…. Hang on. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162809) * Yeah. In order to validate you’re going to need to enclose EVERY INSTANCE of ` ` tags in this: * Opening tag just INSIDE the opening script line: `//` * Those positions can be tweaked some too, so if that doesn’t get it, post back and we’ll tweak a bit. * Oh. Try NOT enclosing “noscript” unless it’s within the script tagset…. * [polimom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polimom/) * (@polimom) * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-1-2/#post-162810) * Vkaryl, you just slipped into Greek on me. I tried last week to get this right, and failed miserably. * Can you tell me what you mean, specific to the code? For instance: * a href=”[http://easy-web-stats.com/users/index.php”>