Error message, Special characters must be escaped: [<]

[Bknjholl]

When I put in this code:

<li><a href="BPSS_VED.html"<a/><img class="active" src="images/5.jpg" title="Caption one" alt="School Songs by Brent Holl and Earth Dance by Vivian Caputo" /></li>

The error message pops up. I've read a bunch of the previous answers but none seem to address this particular problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Bknjholl]

sorry: the code should be:

<li><a href="BPSS_VED.html"</a><img class="active" src="images/5.jpg" title="Caption one" alt="School Songs by Brent Holl and Earth Dance by Vivian Caputo" /></li>

[osgood_ · Accepted solution]

Bknjholl  wrote

sorry: the code should be:

<li><a href="BPSS_VED.html"</a><img class="active" src="images/5.jpg" title="Caption one" alt="School Songs by Brent Holl and Earth Dance by Vivian Caputo" /></li>

You need to close the anchor <a></a> tag and wrap it around the image like below:

<li><a href="BPSS_VED.html"><img class="active" src="images/5.jpg"

title="Caption one" alt="School Songs by Brent Holl and Earth Dance by

Vivian Caputo" /></a></li>

[Nancy OShea]

Change code to this and it should validate.

<li><a href="BPSS_VED.html"><img class="active" src="images/5.jpg" title="Caption one" alt="School Songs by Brent Holl and Earth Dance by Vivian Caputo"></a></li>