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
One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as
<p>or<table>) inside an inline element (such as<a>,<span>, or<font>).
So, in Your code, I see, that <div> element is inside the <span> element which is not a valid XHTML.
Reference:
and as stated on this page:
Generally, inline elements may contain only data and other inline elements.