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Question

I am attempting to clean up some HTML after it being chopped and altered many times.

When I go to Validate the page I keep getting a kick back saying this

"end tag for "table" which is not finished"

bit confused as i believe I closed it? here is a sample.

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="widthtable" width="650" />

I also tried

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="widthtable" width="650"< </table>

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Look at the error message more closely.

It says that it has found the end tag (so you have closed it) but that it is not finished.

Now look at the DTD :

 <!ELEMENT TABLE - - (CAPTION?, (COL*|COLGROUP*), THEAD?, TFOOT?, TBODY+)> 

Its children are:

• An optional caption element
• Any number of col and colgroup elements
• An optional thead element
• An optional tfoot element
• At least one tbody element

You haven't added any children at all, so the mandatory first tbody element is missing. This means the table isn't finished when you write the end tag for it.

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A table without any children doesn't many any sense anyway.

If you have no data, then you can't express that data in the form of a table.

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NB: With the exception of the class attribute, every attribute you have used was superseded by CSS a decade ago.

Answer 2

You should close your table tags correctly.

<table .. **>**</table>


<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="widthtable" width="650"> </table>