Steve Symington’s Blog

If you click the w3.org validator link in the sidebar (also here), you will find that this page DOES NOT validate as valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Not that it’s the end of the world, but I was surprised when I clicked the link today for the first time in a few days. I take pride in my nicely formed code, but it seems a phantom </p> tag has found its way into my “New Kitten” entry. I took a look at the entry in the Wordpress interface…the phantom tag was not there. I checked the database…it’s not there, either. I double-checked to make sure I’m looking at the right lines…yep, it’s the right one. I turned off the Wordpress “auto-correct malformed XHTML” feature to no avail. The tag only appears in the final source of the blog home. So from where did this phantom tag originate? I only spent five minutes or so trying to figure this out, and perhaps I’ll actually waste more time on it, but I find that little </p> a tad bothersome. If I decide to figure it out once and for all, I’ll certainly keep you posted.

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