HTML validation issue with <HR>

I'm getting a W3C validation error on

</ul></td></tr></table><HR><table border=0><tr><td valign=top><ul>

document type does not allow element "HR" here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag

if that a problem with the <HR> or something else?

 

What's the URL of the page so we can see the rest of the code? First thought is an opened but unclosed tag somewhere earlier on (that we can't see), secondly the tag is UPPERCASE and what DOCTYPE are you using?

 

It's http://www.cool-sites-project.com/html/Arts/index.html

 

From first glance I think it's got something to do with your span tags, I'm having a closer look.

 

I think that's it, the code that generates the pages, is sometimes using <SPAN.. and sometimes using <DIV - and I think it needs to be DIV in this case

 

Your stylesheet (http://www.cool-sites-project.com/style.css) has HTML tags in it - get rid of them for starters

 

You can't place TABLE inside SPAN, use the class attribute for the table, or td tags and modify that stylesheet

try to finalize BR's and HR's like: <br/> seeing as they don't have end tags, I know it seems like a pain because it's for xhtml / xml. It makes sense though.

 

Use <hr /> instead...

I guess the validation error was in XHTML... All tags need to be closed - the / basically just acts like a closing tag...

 

Don't forget that with XHTML, the tags have to be lower case as well.