I am trying to validate my document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional (W3C). I have the following error: document type does not allow element "div" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag which corresponds to this code:
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
also error: document type does not allow element "p" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag
<p><span class="form-span">Do <input type="checkbox" name="own" value="yes" /> rent <input type="checkbox" name="rent" value="yes" /> other <input type="checkbox" name="rentother" value="Other" /></span></p>
code fragment:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional
...
<body>
<form id="form1" ...>
...
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
<p><span class="form-span">Do <input type="checkbox" name="own" value="yes" /> rent <input type="checkbox" name="rent" value="yes" /> other <input type="checkbox" name="rentother" value="Other" /></span></p>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
<span style="width:100%;">
...
<input id="i1oc_yes" type="radio" name="i1oc" value="yes" />
<input id="i1oc_no" type="radio" name="i1oc" value="no" />
...
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
...
</span>
Please let me know what is the problem. Thanks!
Generally, Your problem consists of the following as stated by validator
So, in Your code, I see, that
<div>element is inside the<span>element which is not a valid XHTML.Reference:
Block-level elements
Inline elements
and as stated on this page: