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Answer 1

A:

Your document type is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;

Are you sure you want to use just that. If not try to use below document type:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;

Strict document type is checked really strictly; and you should be able to comply with those strict standards.

I am not sure whether this is exactly the cause of issue, but you may want to try it.

Sarfraz 2009-12-16 07:27:51

Thank you for the suggestion, I have changed it to transitional without any change in the number of errors.

superUntitled 2009-12-16 07:36:48

ok thanks for sharing and letting me know about that. :)

Sarfraz 2009-12-16 07:52:34

BS. There's no difference in parsing between Transitional and Strict.

Ms2ger 2009-12-16 11:12:23

@ms2ger if that is really so, i probably did not know that. thanks for sharing.

Sarfraz 2009-12-16 11:15:13

Answer 2

+3 A:

The first <li> inside the second <ul> is missing a closing tag ... looks like you've copied and pasted the code, so the error appears a few times.

<ul>
    <li class='headlink'><a href='home' class='inactive'>Home</a></li>
    <li class='headlink'><a href='about' class='inactive'>About</a>
     <ul class='About'>
      <li class='headlink'><a href='about'>About</a> <!-- MISSING TAG HERE -->
      <li><a href='management-team' class='inactive'>Management Team</a></li>
      <li><a href='partners' class='inactive'>Partners</a></li>
      <li><a href='global-one-standard' class='inactive'>Global One Standard</a></li>
      <li><a href='business-investment-opportunities' class='inactive'>Business & Investment Opportunities</a></li>
     </ul>
    </li>
    <li class='headlink'><a href='services' class='active'>Services</a>
     <ul class='Services'>
      <li class='headlink'><a href='services'>Services</a> <!-- MISSING TAG HERE -->
      <li><a href='brokerage' class='inactive'>Brokerage Group</a></li>
      <li><a href='development-group' class='inactive'>Development Group</a></li>
     </ul>
    </li>
    <li class='headlink'><a href='projects' class='inactive'>Projects</a>
     <ul class='Projects'>
      <li class='headlink'><a href='projects'>Projects</a> <!-- MISSING TAG HERE -->
      <li><a href='hilton-garden-inn' class='inactive'>Hilton Garden Inn</a></li>
      <li><a href='federal-plaza' class='inactive'>Federal Plaza</a></li>
     </ul>
    </li>
    <li class='headlink'><a href='contact' class='inactive'>Contact</a></li>
</ul>

Jonny Haynes 2009-12-16 08:28:26

Thank you Jonny.

superUntitled 2009-12-16 16:55:22

Answer 3

+1 A:

Check your code very carefully at the locations the validator complains, for example the first error

Line 41, Column 203: document type does not allow element "li" here; missing one of "ul", "ol", "menu", "dir" start-tag

Is because your code looks like this

//...
<ul class='About'>
    <li class='headlink'>
        <a href='about'>About</a>
     //                            <- you have to put </li> here
    <li>
        <a href='management-team' class='inactive'>Management Team</a>
   </li>

Felix Kling 2009-12-16 08:38:40

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