Validation errors

[maxy007]

Hi there,
I was checking my site for validation errors and there are a few of them.
The main one seems to be this the "i" in id
/index.php?main_page=page&id=14">E-Juice</a><br /><a href="http:
[FONT=Arial]The error message says: [/FONT]
Line 80, Column 115:
cannot generate system identifier for general entity "id"
[FONT=Arial]
Then the description[/FONT]
An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by that name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in "Ampersands in URLs".
Entity references start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;). If you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it as "&amp;" (even inside URLs!). Be careful to end entity references with a semicolon or your entity reference may get interpreted in connection with the following text. Also keep in mind that named entity references are case-sensitive; &Aelig; and &aelig; are different characters.



how do i fix this??


Cheers,


Maxy

[Drunkguy]

Hello.
Check your URLs, hardcoded links, text and category names for the "&" symbol and replace with "&amp;"

As per your message:
/index.php?main_page=page&id=14">E-Juice</a><br /><a href="http:

The link should read:
/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=14">E-Juice</a><br /><a href="http:

Hope that helps.
Drunkguy

[maxy007]

Thanks Drunkguy.
That worked. :)

The last two seem to be with <BR> tags.
There are quite a few of these but they all relate to the same page
Can you please help me with this?
Once I understand one I can fix the others.

Line 107, Column 131: end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified …font size="2">We aim to be your one stop shop for all your vaping needs.<br> ✉
You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".



The next part says

1. Line 107, Column 127: start tag was here …font size="2">We aim to be your one stop shop for all your vaping needs.<br>

The other one is
Line 108, Column 64: end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified …ty products at competitive prices.<br><br>We prefer to call our products "pers… ✉
You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">"

and
Line 108, Column 60: start tag was here …uality products at competitive prices.<br><br>We prefer to call our products "…
Thanks for your help

[Drunkguy]

Line breaks must be <br /> rather than the standard html <br>

Also get to know how xhtml differs from html 1-4. There are a lot of subtle differences that you should be aware of that will cause validation errors.

Cheers
Drunkguy

[maxy007]

Thanks mate.
should this be
.<br><br />We prefer to call our products
with a space between the r and /

cheers,

Maxy

[gilby]

Thanks mate.
should this be
.<br><br />We prefer to call our products
with a space between the r and /

cheers,

Maxy

Both need to be closed and yes it needs a space as in <br />


this should be
.<br /><br />We prefer to call our products
with a space between the r and /

[maxy007]

That's fantastic!!
Thank you for your help.

Cheers,

Maxy

[kuroi]

Actually the space is unnecessary and can even be unhelpful. For example Zen Cart includes a function that truncates product descriptions, but is careful not to truncate in the middle of a word. It detects the end of a word by looking for the space that comes after it, which can cause it to truncate in the middle of a br tag. So <br/> is safer than <br />.

[gilby]

Actually the space is unnecessary and can even be unhelpful. For example Zen Cart includes a function that truncates product descriptions, but is careful not to truncate in the middle of a word. It detects the end of a word by looking for the space that comes after it, which can cause it to truncate in the middle of a br tag. So <br/> is safer than <br />.

I stand corrected...
I have been using <br /> for so long now that I thought it was the "standard"

[Website Rob]

Technically, <br /> is correct whereas <br/> is not; when using XHTML.

This is due to the XML Standards which state that any unmatched tag must use space/>.

This also includes, for example, such tags as: <meta /> <link /> <base /> <hr /> <img />