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Learn how to identify and fix common HTML validation errors flagged by the W3C Validator — so your pages are standards-compliant and render correctly across every browser. Also check our Accessibility Guides.

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A “style” element in “body” must be the first child of its parent.
Element “meta” is missing one or more of the following attributes: “itemprop”, “property”.
End tag for “body” seen, but there were unclosed elements.
“meta” element between “head” and “body”.
Non-space character after body.
Rule “@import” not allowed in a “style” element in “body”.
Rule X not allowed outside an “@scope” rule in a “style” element in “body”.
Saw an end tag after “body” had been closed.
“script” element between “head” and “body”.
Start tag “body” seen but an element of the same type was already open.
Stray start tag “body”.
Stray start tag “footer”.
Stray start tag “h1”–“h6”.
“style” element between “head” and “body”.
Style rule X not allowed outside an “@scope” rule in a “style” element in “body”.
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