I'm doing some w3 validation. I've done most of the work as I started with 40 reported issues, now is only 3.
This is the page I'm validating:
<?php
session_start();
ob_start();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]><html class="ie ie6" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]><html class="ie ie7" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]><html class="ie ie8" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--><html lang="en"><!--<![endif]-->
<html>
<head>
<!-- Basic Page Needs
================================================== -->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Andrew's Webpage</title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<!-- Mobile Specific Metas
================================================== -->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
<!-- CSS
================================================== -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/base.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/skeleton.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/layout.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/navcss.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/map.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/about.css">
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<!-- Favicons
================================================== -->
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/images/favicon.ico">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="assets/images/apple-touch-icon.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="assets/images/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="assets/images/apple-touch-icon- 114x114.png">
</head>
<body>
<div id= "background">
<div id = "main-head" class="container">
<div class="sixteen columns">
<h1 class="remove-bottom" style="margin-top: 40px">Advanced Internet Development A </h1>
<h5>Andrew David Dunkerley</h5>
<h6> <a href="loginform.php">Login</a></h6>
<h6> <a href="register.php">Register</a></h6>
<h6> <a href="cart.php">Cart</a></h6>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
and these are the errors im getting. its probably something so simple but something i keep missing.
Error Line 10, Column 6: Stray start tag html.
<html>
Error Line 66, Column 36: Stray start tag div.
</html><div class="sixteen columns">
Error Line 66, Column 36: Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored.
</html><div class="sixteen columns">
try this