Is there a Validation wizard in the house?

Hi
I have been trying to resolve what I suspect are alot of validation errors in my site. I have run it through W3C and I have over 100 various issues going on. Yet when I try to correct one it seems to create more errors.
Please please please could someone hold my hand through this as I am stumped.
Many thanks

www. shabbylane .co.uk

I wouldnt worry too much, nearly all of them are about having & in urls instead of the proper & which is a moot point and really will not affect how your site operates or indexing etc..

dgent:

I wouldnt worry too much, nearly all of them are about having & in urls instead of the proper & which is a moot point and really will not affect how your site operates or indexing etc..

Thank you for the reassurance Dgent. Out of interest why don't other ZC sites that I have compared via w3c have the same &/&amp issue? Any ideas?
Thank you again.

Are these URLS hard coded into your template as links? Are you using a different template on this site to the others?

dgent:

Are these URLS hard coded into your template as links? Are you using a different template on this site to the others?

I have a few links hard coded in using blank sidebox mod and a few internal banner links (is that what you mean? sorry). I am using Ceon URI rewriting.

Ah well if they are hard coded you can change for example the &cPath in the link etc to &cPath

Also the same in links to products.

Use Firefox + HTML validator add-on to help you track these down.

Zen Cart is valid out of the box so you've broken it!!

Some are due to the sidebox addon shop by price. Some are table and div errors you have introduced.
All can be fixed except maybe the facebook ones which I attempted to fix a long time ago and gave up.

torvista:

Use Firefox + HTML validator add-on to help you track these down.

Zen Cart is valid out of the box so you've broken it!!

Some are due to the sidebox addon shop by price. Some are table and div errors you have introduced.
All can be fixed except maybe the facebook ones which I attempted to fix a long time ago and gave up.

Thank you both, I will look into these useful tools.

I have traced the majority of my validation errors down to the content of my Blank Sidebox (from free addons/mods area). Below is an example of the content...

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php?main_page=shippinginfo"> <img src="images/delivery.png" height="225" width="120" border="0" alt="Delivery" title="Delivery"></a>

and the validation error reads...

end tag for X 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 ">".
Line 360, column 231: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
…t="225" width="120" border="0" alt="Delivery" title="Delivery"></a></div></div>

Can anyone spot anything I am missing please?
Much appreciated.

You need to 'close' the <img /> tag properly:

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php?main_page=shippinginfo"> <img src="images/delivery.png" height="225" width="120" border="0" alt="Delivery" title="Delivery" /></a>

lat9:

You need to 'close' the <img /> tag properly:

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php?main_page=shippinginfo"> <img src="images/delivery.png" height="225" width="120" border="0" alt="Delivery" title="Delivery" /></a>

Awesome!!! Thank you so much. :cheers: