Invalid Markup because of a "div"

  • Resolved Hopper

    (@faithfilly)


    14 years, 3 months ago

    Before I spend any more hours searching through my index.php file to try to find out exactly what is causing these 10 identical error messages:

    “document type does not allow element “div” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag”

    …when checking my site for markup validation, I should ask others if maybe I may be looking to solve this issue in the wrong file?

    Here is my index.php file.

    Here is my weblog.

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  • Anonymous User

    (@anonymized-3085)

    Try taking this section out of your <h2>…</h2>
    <div class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link(__('Post a Comment!', 'sandbox'), __('1 Comment', 'sandbox'), __('% Comments', 'sandbox')) ?></div>

    Thread Starter Hopper

    (@faithfilly)

    When I do that, it removes the link for people to be able to post a comment… but it does cause the site to validate!

    If only now to figure out how to enable the link to post a comment to be there in the index.php, but without invalidating the site.

    Anonymous User

    (@anonymized-3085)

    reinsert it after the </h2>

    Thread Starter Hopper

    (@faithfilly)

    That too caused the link to disappear.

    Thread Starter Hopper

    (@faithfilly)

    Maybe seeing the results from the validation markup page might help?

    Here is how that came out.

    Thread Starter Hopper

    (@faithfilly)

    Is it possible that the necessary editing to be done is not in the index.php, but rather another file instead?

    Anonymous User

    (@anonymized-3085)

    You’ve still got that div within the <h2>…</h2>

    So a suggestion, change the div to a span.

    Thread Starter Hopper

    (@faithfilly)

    I tried that several times and no way I tried works.

    Is this normal for something to be such a pain in the butt to fix?

    Is this the right forum for me to be asking questions like this?

    Anonymous User

    (@anonymized-3085)

    Leave it as span, and change your style for
    div.comments-link
    to
    span.comments-link

    Thread Starter Hopper

    (@faithfilly)

    I just thought of that myself. In fact, that was what I was busy editing as you were probably composing your most recent post here. ??

    It was the solution! Thank you for helping to push me into that direction faster!

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