html code errors

[Soi Sauce]

On my little old blogger blog there should be 3 sets of Google adsense, however only two display. According to the Bling Clogger (Google team) I have a HTML code error on my site. Apparently there are to many </div/,s in the following block of code -

 

<div class='clear'></div>

</div><div class='widget AdSense' id='AdSense2'>

 

If I was to remove the second </div> all would become good again. The only thing is I can't get them to tell me how to find it. I open my blog and expand the template, search through 5000 lines of code but it aint there so, where is the offending block of code to be found/

 

Heeeelp.. Theres a Singha in it hehe

[singalong]

try running your code through http://validator.w3.org/ - it will highlight all html code errors by line number...

 

Cheers

[Soi Sauce]

try running your code through http://validator.w3.org/ - it will highlight all html code errors by line number...

 

Cheers

 

ouch it looks a bit worsererer now? any suggestions?

1. Line 2, Column 219: Attribute xmlns:b not allowed here.
   …www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
   ✉
   
2. Line 2, Column 219: Attribute with the local name xmlns:b is not serializable as XML 1.0.
   …www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
   ✉
   
3. Line 2, Column 219: Attribute xmlns:data not allowed here.
   …www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
   ✉
   
4. Line 2, Column 219: Attribute with the local name xmlns:data is not serializable as XML 1.0.
   …www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
   ✉
   
5. Line 2, Column 219: Attribute xmlns:expr not allowed here.
   …www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
   ✉
   
6. Line 2, Column 219: Attribute with the local name xmlns:expr is not serializable as XML 1.0.
   …www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
   ✉
   
7. Line 2, Column 219: Attribute b:version is not serializable as XML 1.0.
   …www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
   ✉
   
8. Line 2, Column 219: Attribute b:version not allowed on element html at this point.
   …www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
   Attributes for element html: Global attributes manifest
   
9. Line 18, Column 60: Bad value X-UA-Compatible for attribute http-equiv on element meta.
   <meta content='IE=EmulateIE7' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'/>
   ✉
   
10. Line 23, Column 55: Bad value MSSmartTagsPreventParsing for attribute name on element meta: Keyword mssmarttagspreventparsing is not registered.
    <meta content='true' name='MSSmartTagsPreventParsing'/>
    Syntax of metadata name: A metadata name listed in the HTML specification or listed in the WHATWG wiki. You can register metadata names on the WHATWG wiki yourself.
    
11. Line 29, Column 154: Bad value service.post for attribute rel on element link: Keyword service.post is not registered.
    … Atom" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5093915382050447738/posts/default" />
    Syntax of link type valid for <link>: A whitespace-separated list of link types listed as allowed on <link> in the HTML specification or listed as an allowed on <link> on the Microformats wiki without duplicate keywords in the list. You can register link types on the Microformats wiki yourself.
    
12. Line 38, Column 127: & did not start a character reference. (& probably should have been escaped as &.)
    …n.css?targetBlogID=5093915382050447738&zx=a9f99668-7064-4536-bfee-95e622fa363e…
    ✉
    
13. Line 547, Column 31: script element between head and body.
    <script type='text/javascript'>
    ✉
    
14. Line 547, Column 31: Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored.
    <script type='text/javascript'>
    

[Woofiee]

On my little old blogger blog there should be 3 sets of Google adsense, however only two display. According to the Bling Clogger (Google team) I have a HTML code error on my site. Apparently there are to many </div/,s in the following block of code -

 

<div class='clear'></div>

</div><div class='widget AdSense' id='AdSense2'>

 

If I was to remove the second </div> all would become good again. The only thing is I can't get them to tell me how to find it. I open my blog and expand the template, search through 5000 lines of code but it aint there so, where is the offending block of code to be found/

 

Heeeelp.. Theres a Singha in it hehe

 

You didn't close the DIV correctly:

 

 

<div class="clear"></div>

<div id="AdSense2" class="widget AdSense"></div>

 

Also, it's best to use full quotes not single quotes in HTML, and put the ID first - just good habit.

[Soi Sauce]

You didn't close the DIV correctly:

 

 

<div class="clear"></div>

<div id="AdSense2" class="widget AdSense"></div>

 

Also, it's best to use full quotes not single quotes in HTML, and put the ID first - just good habit.

 

Er.. no. I cant find the code to change thats me prombeam? the only ref: to Adsense2 I can find by expanding the template is

 

</div>

<div class='fauxborder-left tabs-fauxborder-left'>

<div class='fauxborder-right tabs-fauxborder-right'/>

<div class='region-inner tabs-inner'>

<b:section class='tabs' id='crosscol' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='yes'>

<b:widget id='AdSense2' locked='false' title='' type='AdSense'>

<b:includable id='main'>

<div class='widget-content'>

<data:adCode/>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>

</div>

 

Its doing me head big time

Edited February 9, 2012 by Soi Sauce

[manarak]

why don't you use your text editor's search function?

 

[Woofiee]

Er.. no. I cant find the code to change thats me prombeam? the only ref: to Adsense2 I can find by expanding the template is

 

  </div>
<div class='fauxborder-left tabs-fauxborder-left'>
<div class='fauxborder-right tabs-fauxborder-right'/>
<div class='region-inner tabs-inner'>
  <b:section class='tabs' id='crosscol' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='yes'>
<b:widget id='AdSense2' locked='false' title='' type='AdSense'>
<b:includable id='main'>
 <div class='widget-content'>
<data:adCode/>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
 </div>

 

Its doing me head big time

 

I don't know AdSense but it's clear your example is still wrong. The thing you need to know is that most HTML occurs in paired tags - one opens and one closes, and it almost always closes with a / before the tag name.

 

In your example, the very first line is closing the pair before it opens and I don't see many closing tags, so let's clean this up a little so it's easier to read. Traditionally, you'd tab in every time you open a new pair of HTML tags:

 

 

</div>
   <div class='fauxborder-left tabs-fauxborder-left'>
       <div class='fauxborder-right tabs-fauxborder-right'/>
           <div class='region-inner tabs-inner'>
               <b:section class='tabs' id='crosscol' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='yes'>
               <b:widget id='AdSense2' locked='false' title='' type='AdSense'>
               <b:includable id='main'>
                   <div class='widget-content'>
                       <data:adCode />
                       <b:include name='quickedit' />
                   </div>

 

First line: it starts with a close tag </div> - you know it's closing because of the / so that's clearly wrong.

 

Second line: you don't use the /> on a tag pair.

 

Third: You then open 4 <DIV>s but only close the last pair (the "widget-content").

 

Is this all the HTML you have?

[singalong]

Carrying on from Woofies post, all elements, including <b:section....>, <b:widget...> etc. also need to be closed. Might help if you post the entire codeblock where you want do display the ad...

[Soi Sauce]

Been banging me head over this all day .. even went into the expand widgets doda and started deleting bits. Just random really. No idea what I was doing. Then right at the bottom of the page was a "Rest side bar widget" thingy. I reckon by the use of all the technical terms you can tell I am genuinely hopeless at this. Any road up I clicked, added some more: adsense and BINGO. Its actually appearing, taking today's earnings ... to £1.37 (its a start hehe) cheers for all you help and advice