I'm getting 17 errors when I submit this page to the w3c markup validation service for xhtml 1.0 transitional doctype The errors are all of the same nature: "Line 41, Column 5: document type does not allow element "ul" here; assuming missing "li" start-tag." http://www.cdstudies.com/map.html The code is short, would anyone mind taking a look? Maybe you can see something I don't. Thanks in advance
Above is correct, Your code becomes, <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>ICDS Site Map</title> <style type="text/css"> body { margin-left: 30px; } h1 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #775544; font-size: 1em; } ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; } ul a { font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: .9em; color: #666666; } li { list-style: none; color: #666666; margin: 0; padding: 0; } .sublist { margin-left: 10px; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>CEUs</h1> <ul> <li><a href="ceus/independentstudies.html">Independent Studies </a></li> <li><a href="ceus/customworkshops.html">Custom Workshops</a> </li> <li>Advanced Clinical Skills</li> <li> <ul> <li><a href="ceus/motivation.html">Motivational Interviewing</a></li> <li><a href="ceus/cooccuring.html">Co-Occuring Disorders</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="ceus/austinworkshops.html">Austin Workshops</a> </li> <li><a href="ceus/dallasworkshops.html">Dallas Workshops</a> </li> <li><a href="ceus/houstonworkshops.html">Houston Workshops</a> </li> <li><a href="ceus/sanantonioworkshops.html">San Antonio Workshops </a></li> </ul> <h1>Certification Courses</h1> <ul> <li><a href="certification_courses/prevention.html">Prevention Training </a></li> <li><a href="certification_courses/clinicalsupervision.html">Clinical Supervision</a> </li> <li><a href="certification_courses/cart.html">Anger Resolution Therapist </a></li> <li><a href="certification_courses/addfree_workshops.html">Addiction Free Pain Management Training</a></li> </ul> <h1>Counselor Training</h1> <ul> <li><a href="counselor_training/distancelearning.html">Distance Learning </a></li> <li> <ul class="sublist"> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/alabama.html">Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/alaska.html">Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/arkansas.html">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/california.html">California</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/connecticut.html">Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/florida.html">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/iowa.html">Iowa</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/illinois.html">Illinois</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/mississippi.html">Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/newmexico.html">New Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/newyork.html">New York</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/ohio.html">Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/oregon.html">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/pennsylvania.html">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/rhodeisland.html">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/southcarolina.html">South Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/texas.html">Texas</a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/distance_learning/washington.html">Washington</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="counselor_training/lcdctraining.html">LCDC Training</a> </li> <li><a href="counselor_training/collegecredit.html">College Credit </a></li> <li><a href="counselor_training/financing.html">Student Financing</a></li> </ul> <h1>Applications</h1> <ul> <li><a href="applications/distancelearning.html">Distance Learning </a></li> <li>Classroom Courses</li> <li> <ul class="sublist"> <li><a href="applications/austin.html">Austin</a></li> <li><a href="applications/dallas.html">Dallas</a></li> <li><a href="applications/houston.html">Houston</a></li> <li><a href="applications/sanantonio.html">San Anton</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="applications/instructor.html">Instructor</a></li> </ul> <h1>ICRC Test Review</h1> <ul> <li><a href="test_review/testreview_workshop.html">Workshop </a></li> <li><a href="test_review/testreview_guides.html">Guides </a></li> </ul> </body> </html> Code (markup): You also have a </div> without a <div> so I removed that. OR, you can remove the closing tag from the <li> before each of the new <ul>. Depending on what you want to achieve (link above guy did).
I get it.. lists within a list need to be wrapped in a list item tag. Makes sense. Thanks for the help.