Validation Error - Element "a"

[PPat]

Hi everyone!

I am new to the forum and hope to find some help. I am not a developer, neither understand much about XHTML. I am trying to validate my wordpress website and I was able to correct some errors, but there's one I don't understand and I am unable to fix:

document type does not allow element "a" here; missing one of "object", "span", "bdo", "applet", "iframe", "tt", "i", "b", "u", "s", "strike", "big", "small", "font", "em", "strong", "dfn", "code", "q", "samp", "kbd", "var", "cite", "abbr", "acronym", "sub", "sup", "label", "ins", "del" start-tag.

I think this happens in this line:

<span class="number-of-comments"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>#comments" title="title"><?php comments_popup_link('Coment&aacute;rios', '1 Coment&aacute;rio!', '% Coment&aacute;rios!'); ?></a></span>

Any help would be great! Thanks!

[guido2004]

Validation is done on the (X)HTML that is a result of your PHP code, so you'd better post what is received by your browser, not the script full of PHP function calls.

[PPat]

Sorry, but like I said before I am not a developer, so I am not sure what to post!
I hope this is what you asking me to post!

<?php get_header(); ?>
	<div id="content">
		<div id="main-content">
		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
			<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
				<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
					<h6><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h6>
					<span class="date"><?php the_time('j.m.Y') ?></span>
					<div class="entry">
						<?php the_content(__('Continuar a ler').' &raquo;'); ?>
					</div>
						<p class="postmetadata">Categoria: <?php the_category(' | ') ?> </p>
						<p class="postmetadata">Tags: <?php the_tags(' ',' | ') ?> </p>
						<span class="number-of-comments"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>#comments" title="title"><?php comments_popup_link('Coment&aacute;rios', '1 Coment&aacute;rio!', '% Coment&aacute;rios!'); ?></a></span>
				</div> <!-- close:post -->
			<?php endwhile; ?>
			<div class="pagination clearfix">
				<div class="prev"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo;&laquo;') ?></div>
				<div class="next"><?php previous_posts_link('&raquo;&raquo;') ?></div>
			</div>
		<?php else : ?>
			<p class="string"><?php _e('Lamento, mas a p&aacute;gina que procura n&atilde;o existe.'); ?></p>
		<?php endif; ?>
		</div> <!-- close:main-content -->
	<!-- close:content -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

[AutisticCuckoo]

No, that's still the PHP code.

Open the page in your browser, right-click and select 'View Source' (or similar, depending on your browser). Then copy and paste the relevant part of the HTML markup.

[PPat]

Oh! Hope I got it right this time:

<span class="number-of-comments"><a href="mysite.com/?p=1155#comments" title="title"><a href="mysite.com/?p=1155#respond" title="Comment on My Post">Comments</a></a></span>

Thanks!

[AutisticCuckoo]

Ah! I see the problem. You've got one link inside another (<a><a></a></a>). That's not allowed. Links can't contain other links.

[PPat]

Thanks for your help! I will try to fix that! Cheers!