I'm trying to get one of my pages to validate, but I can't. The problem is a table I have and i'm only getting one error. I thought that tables comply with valid xhtml?

Anyway this is the error i'm getting.

Validation Output: 1 Error
Line 34, Column 76: document type does not allow element "table" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag.
…="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">✉
The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.

One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "<span>", or "<font>").


Any input? thanks.

Can you post a link to the page in question? You might be missing a closing tag for something else before the table in your code.

I looked over it a couple times and it doesn't look like i'm missing any end tags or anything, but a fresh pair of eyes are probably better than mine.

The page is located here.

Thanks.

Thinks like <div align="center"> are incorrect for XHTML because XHTML requires the separation of presentational code and content. The centering has to be done thru proper CSS, not sloppy in-line code.

In looking at your code, it appears you have a table wrapped INSIDE <p></p> tags - not allowed. You also have these errors:

line 71 column 14 - Warning: <br> element not empty or not closed
line 76 column 81 - Warning: <a> attribute "target" has invalid value "0"
line 33 column 10 - Warning: trimming empty <p>

ALL tags must be closed, a <br> must be written as <br />
The "target" attribute is deprecated and should not be used and obviously has an incorrect value anyway.

Ah, it was the <p> that did it. Thanks.