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Duz

More options Apr 4, 2:51 pm

From: Duz <kay.keat...@ayrlawn.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:51:41 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Fri, Apr 4 2008 2:51 pm

Subject: Re: Google Search Errors

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Many thanks Webado. That worked beautifully. Thank goodness the
problem was in an SSI file so it was easy to correct across the whole
site. I forget too much when I don't work with this stuff on a
regular basis. I vaguely recall this happened once before with the /

> at the end of a line. Hope all is well at your end; we are just

beginning to enjoy the spring flowers and trees, but it is still a bit
cool.
Thanks again.
Duz

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On Apr 2, 1:32 pm, webado <web...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,

> For a non xhtml doctype, tags like <input ..> do not take a matching
> closing tag like </input>, nor are they self closed by /> .

> So remove all </input> tags.

> You probably added thid code after validating your page previously.
> But code always has to be adapted to the doctype used. Or vice versa -
> anyway code syntax and doctype have to agree :)

> On 2 avr, 11:19, Duz <kay.keat...@ayrlawn.com> wrote:

> > Hello Webado,
> > I'm back at work after a hiatus of many weeks. I'm shocked to find
> > that all those pages that I had validated are now showing errors. The
> > most glaring has to do with the Google Search box. Most of the errors
> > are as follows:
> > Error Line 689, Column 71: end tag for element "INPUT"
> > which is not open .

> > What have I done now? Or has Google changed something?
> > Duz

> > =============================

> > 
> > <form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/custom"
> > target="_top">
> > <table border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc">
> > <tr><td nowrap="nowrap" valign="top" align="left" height="32">
> > <a href="http://www.google.com/">
> > <img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25gry.gif" border="0"
> > alt="Google" align="middle"></img></a>
> > </td>
> > <td nowrap="nowrap">
> > <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="www.toiletology.com"></
> > input>
> > <label for="sbi" style="display: none">Enter your search terms</label>
> > <input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value=""
> > id="sbi"></input>
> > <label for="sbb" style="display: none">Submit search form</label>
> > <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" id="sbb"></input>
> > </td></tr>
> > <tr>
> > <td> </td>
> > <td nowrap="nowrap">
> > <table>
> > <tr>
> > <td>
> > <input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="" id="ss0"></input>
> > <label for="ss0" title="Search the Web"><font size="-1"
> > color="#000000">Web</font></label></td>
> > <td>
> > <input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="www.toiletology.com"
> > checked id="ss1"></input>
> > <label for="ss1" title="Searchwww.toiletology.com"><font size="-1"
> > color="#000000">www.toiletology.com</font></label></td>
> > </tr>
> > </table>
> > <input type="hidden" name="client" value="pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"></
> > input>
> > <input type="hidden" name="forid" value="1"></input>
> > <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
> > <input type="hidden" name="oe" value="ISO-8859-1"></input>
> > <input type="hidden" name="safe" value="active"></input>
> > <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="GALT:#000000;GL:
> > 1;DIV:#698769;VLC:000000;AH:center;BGC:DDD3AA;LBGC:698769;ALC:
> > 000000;LC:000000;T:000000;GFNT:663333;GIMP:663333;LH:50;LW:
> > 218;L:http://www.toiletology.com/images/kay-logo.gif;S:http://;FORID:
> > 1"></input>
> > <input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"></input>
> > </td></tr></table>
> > </form>
> >

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