Re: validation problem

by "Stephanie Thrasher" <sjthrasher(at)jps.net>

 Date:  Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:35:30 -0700
 To:  <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
 References:  net
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Hi Lynn,

I'm not an expert on this, but it looks like the closing slash on the link
tag in the head is throwing it off -- if you remove it, it validates.  It
doesn't mind the closing slashes in other tags though ... maybe someone else
can explain that.

Stephanie



> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong.  The page in
> question is:
>
> http://tesolarabia.org
>
> It validates XHTML transitional but when I try to validate
> it for HTML transitional I get an error telling me that I
> have a closing HEAD tag that isn't open and an opening BODY
> tag after that that isn't allowed.  When I take these tags
> out it validates, but that has to be wrong!  I've checked
> for nesting and can't find any problems there.  Some new
> eyes are needed and any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks so much, Lynn
>
>

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