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Posted by Sharon Weathers
Sharon Weathers
805 Points

Invalid Markup Validation

What does this mean? Do I have an error and how can I fix it?

Error found while checking this document as HTML5! Result: 1 Error, 3 warning(s) Source: Encoding: utf-8
Doctype: HTML5

Joseph Damiani
Joseph Damiani
1,066 Points

Can you provide the code that is in question?

1 Answer

Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
8,600 Points
Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
8,600 Points

Have you declared your DOCTYPE as:

<!DOCTYPE HTML5>

?

If so it is declared incorrectly, to declare an HTML5 DOCTYPE it is just simply:

<!DOCTYPE html>

This might be the cause of your problem?

If not you might need to post your code so we can find the error.