Validation help.

okay – this is definitely a confusing one.
can you put the header.php over at pastebin as well?

basically what the error is saying is that you’re missing the tag closing of a link… so you have something like this:

<a href="https://thelink.com">the text

without the ending </a>

try looking for that around that link in your header file??

i did, couldn’t find it. here’s the link to pastebin (great site by the way, thank you)

https://pastebin.com/700114

welp…

I did find this:
The act of moving, proceeding, or acting in a covert way.
class="descblue"<strong>Fiction:</strong>


where your class="descblue" is misplaced… should be within the P-tag before it… however this still isn’t telling us anything about the erroneous A-tag.

i’m wondering if it’s inside your index.php or another file instead of the header?

(glad you like pastebin – i love it!)

i’ve narrowed this one down to somewhere in this bit <p class="bigblue">Welcome to <?php bloginfo('title'); ?>
<p class="descblue">Stealth:
The act of moving, proceeding, or acting in a covert way.
<p class="descblue">Fiction:
A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not
necessarily based on fact.
<a href="<?php
echo($full_about_page); ?> "title="Read more...">Click here to view the
full about page and contact information
site is powered by
WordPress and the
<a title="The Scary Little Theme by
Nik Iliadis">Scary Little theme.

(i cut out this section and it set to the next step so what ever hanging it up is here. but i can’t see anything wrong, perhaps if i formatted it differnt.)

Is it an end tag missing?

– <a href=”https://scarylittlemonkey.com/&#8221; title=”The Scary Little Theme by
Nik Iliadis”/>Scary Little theme.

Note the />

I thought that too, liverpoollad – however that’s just where he broke the post off – it really reads:

<a href="https://scarylittlemonkey.com/" title="The Scary Little Theme by Nik Iliadis">Scary Little</a> theme.

if you look at the pastebin example.

+++ I’m thinking, just by looking at it in pastebin (and in my text editor), that there are a lot of carriage returns in the header that don’t quite make sense. I can’t imagine they’d be causing a problem, but maybe if you fixed those?

thank you! great job. one stupid little ‘/’ I just couldnt see it. I ended up going back to the original source code and kept replacing lines. found the line but still didn’t know why his worked and the one i edited it didn’t..

But wow, That opened a whole can of worms too.
https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=https://stealthfiction.com/

here’s the style php.
https://pastebin.com/700058

it looks like my Falbulm plugin is doing something wrong.

here’s the falbulm style sheet.
https://pastebin.com/700228

going to be a long day lol.

LOL well for starters, you’re trying to code for “strict” when maybe you should be trying to validate in “transitional”…

what’s at the bottom of the list for the falbum stylesheet are just “warnings” – not actual errors… basically telling you that it’s not a big deal now, but in the future it might be, depending on the way CSS goes.

“Line: 237 Context : a.annotation span
Property opacity doesn’t exist : 0.2″

opacity only works in IE I believe…

“Line: 251 Context : .falbum-cloud
Invalid number : line-height auto is not a line-height value : auto “

I think you can just delete that line-height line… sometimes authors put them in there in case the user wants to change them…

Other than that – keep playing with it… I actually have to get out of these forums and get some work done today – but I can check back later, and hopefully someone else can jump in here and help you out while I’m gone… ??

thanks, you’ve been awsome.