Trying to validate a page where I know I have closings tags. Do they have to be in a certain order?

Here is the report:

Line 43, Column 241: end tag for "B" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this.
…25d"><b> bold and colored green</font></b>. They will change to<font color= "


Clearly the </b> is there.

What am I not understanding?

You have 2 options:

1) Use <font><b> blah blah blah </b></font>
OR
2) Use <b><font> blah blah blah </font></b>

I.e. you must close the innermost tag first, then the ones outside of it after.
This way will pass validation.

Hope I've helped.

Talkupation appreciated

The <font> tag has been deprecated for quite a while. I would suggest formatting with style sheets.

http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/font.html

What's wrong with the FONT element?
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/font.html

Thanks Whym! That is what I needed to know. I suspected it had something to do with order.

Originally Posted by joder

The <font> tag has been deprecated for quite a while. I would suggest formatting with style sheets.
What's wrong with the FONT element?
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/font.html

I am using a style sheet. For one occurence on an entire site, I just don't think it worth the time to add it to the style sheet.

I always use the styles, instead of tags, for text formating:

<span style="font-weight:bold;">bla bla bla</span>

Originally Posted by colbyt

I am using a style sheet. For one occurence on an entire site, I just don't think it worth the time to add it to the style sheet.

That's why you can do styles inline and don't have to put them in a separate file.

For example: <span style="font-size:12px;">Text</span>

I just don't think it worth the time to add it to the style sheet.

You couldn't be more wrong.
When you have a site with a zillion font tags on every page, when it comes to CHANGE that font site-wide you have to edit EVERY PAGE, it's very time consuming. If you forget the moldy old <font> tag and use stylesheets to control your font declarations, you can change the ENTIRE site by changing ONE line in your CSS file.

Your problem isn't that you're missing a tag, the problem is that your tags are improperly nested.