Invalid Mark-up Warning - Overlapping or Unclosed Tag

Report · Mar 15, 2010

QUESTION: When the following code is placed into a PHP document created by Dreamweaver an invalid mark-up warning is received and several of the HTML tags are highlighted with yellow. According to the warning an overlapping or unclosed tag is present. Unfortunately, I cannot find an overlapping or unclosed tag.

In an effort to determine the presence or absence of extraneous characters, I cut the code, placed it into a text file, and removed all formatting. I then pasted it back into the document, saved the document, and still the invalid mark-up warning occurred.

1) What is going on?

2) Should I just ignore it?

With the exception of an alignment problem of the headerInclude and Mainpage divisions everything appears fine.

CODE:

<?php include("header.php"); ?>

</div>

<h1>The Include( ) Function</h1>

<p>This is the content of my Mainpage. The header to my Mainpage is created with a server-side include using the PHP include( ) function.</p>

</div>

</div>

</body>

Roddy

Report · Mar 16, 2010

kiusau wrote:
QUESTION: When the following code is placed into a PHP document created by Dreamweaver an invalid mark-up warning is received and several of the HTML tags are highlighted with yellow. According to the warning an overlapping or unclosed tag is present. Unfortunately, I cannot find an overlapping or unclosed tag.

Roddy, I can find nothing wrong with your code. Have you tried rebooting Dreamweaver?

Roddy

Report · Mar 16, 2010

kiusau wrote:
Roddy, I can find nothing wrong with your code. Have you tried rebooting Dreamweaver?

Yes, that appears to have fixed the problem.

Many thanks for your helpful suggestion.

Roddy

Report · Mar 16, 2010

kiusau wrote:
Yes, that appears to have fixed the problem.

I am sorry to be so persistent, but the problem has returned.

This time, however, with new insight:

Though the mark-up error does not appear when the file is reopened after rebooting Dreamweaver, it does reappear when I open the file to be included. In short, whatever is causing the mark-up error appears to require two files: the one that contains the include( ) function, and the one that is included.

What I eventually thought to be a fluke appears to be a reoccurring phenomenon. Alas!

Any other suggestions?

Roddy

Report · Mar 16, 2010

This question was resolved by rebooting Dreamweaver.