W3C help

[TheShortStack]

Morning all - having just run my site through W3C's validator tool, I've been given a list of errors that I'd really like to get sorted out.

Firstly, I've noticed that a lot of the code that I've been given to display banners is showing up as Invalid. Given the fact that I've been given this code by various poker rooms, is there anything I can do about this?

Secondly, I've found that most of the erros tend to be something like this:

"end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified."

You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

Can some explain what this actually means? How am I supposed to close <br>, <img> or <a> tags?

I'd really appreciate some help with this.

Thanks alot,

[mypokercorner]

You are probably using <br> instead of <br />, <hr> instead of <hr />, <img> instead of <img />, etc.

Bassically, apply /> this to any tag that doesn't have a seperate closing tag. (don't forget the *space* before "/>")

This wouldn't apply to <a> tag because you have a speparate </a> tgat that closes it. You can use this on list items <li />. There's not a ton of tags this applies to as most have their own seperate closing tags.

[TheShortStack]

Thanks for that - really appreciate it.

It's all pretty much sorted out.

I've just gone error left, which I'd love to get rid of. Unfortunately, the only thing that the validator is giving me is an </a> tag which it says is unnecessary.

It's giving me a line number so I've copied the code into Dreamweaver and searched for that line number, but there is no <a/> tag on that line.

Is there something I'm missing here??

[mypokercorner]

If that's your only error, I wouldn't worry about it.

[TheShortStack]

Yeah, I know you're right. It's only because I'm down to the last error that I really want to get it sorted out.

Call it an ego thing ;-)

[crazy44]

Basically it means you have the end of a link tag (</a>) but all your links have been closed.

If you go to line 318 you'll see </a> - you need to remove it.

[DealerDan]

Think this is it:

<a href="http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/?key=MDAwMDM5QjYwMDAxMkEzMjAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDA-" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/images/com/en/content/affiliates/banners-sizes/Aussie-millions-2008/300x250.gif" alt="Play Online Poker" width="300" height="250" border="0" /></a></a>