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HTML Markup Validation, 19 errors - serious or not?

by Rocky Mountain Dude
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I would like to know how serious the following errors are on my website;

I just purchased a word press web site and uploaded it to my domain. I checked the site using the W3C HTML validator and found 19 errors and 1 warning.

The concerns I have is how it could affect SEO results and site crawl-ability by the search spiders. Thus should I be concerned and have the errors fixed.



Some of the errors I found include: (copy and pasted just like they were presented)

Error Line 121, Column 18: The align attribute on the p element is obsolete. Use CSS instead. <p align="center">Just fill in your info below and we'll get back to as soon as...

and this ....
Error Line 255, Column 19: The align attribute on the h4 element is obsolete. Use CSS instead. <h4 align="center">CALL NOW!</h3>

and this....
Error Line 255, Column 33: End tag h3 seen, but there were open elements. <h4 align="center">CALL NOW!</h3>
.................................................. .................................................. ......

Are these errors a big concern, and is it a "big job" to fix them, without messing up the design?



I appreciate everybody who takes time to respond to these concerns. Please remember I have little (no) technical experience so please make your explanations equal to my understanding!!
#errors #serious #w3c
  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    I would fix it. The difficulty depends on the source of the error, sounds like you may be using an outdated theme.

    Try using one of the recent wordpress default themes (TwentyXxxxxxx) antd that will confirm the theme is the problem if it goes away.

    This is a STUPID error
    <h4 align="center">CALL NOW!</h3>
    opening a<h4> and closing </h3>

    Complain to the seller, you got a defective product.
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  • Profile picture of the author htmlthis
    You can just remove the align=center and add it as a CSS rule by targeting that particular h4 with this CSS rule text-align:center . It's an easy fix, but the more important error you have there is the <h4>lorem</h3> thing. You def need to fix that. Just close it yourself, replace the h3 with an h4 so that it would be <h4>lorem</h4>
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  • Profile picture of the author blogfreakz
    I would suggest fix those errors, It's not really hard to fix errors and make your theme as w3c validated... good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author Mkcoy
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    Just fix em. Most of the time though you should know that when W3C validator says "error". It doesn't mean there is a problem with your site. Only that its moaning at you for not using CSS where you should.
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  • Profile picture of the author jadawilson123
    Ya fix them.
    Second error : <h4 align="center">CALL NOW!</h3>
    If you using h4 then you you closing with h3 tag. Make it <h4 align="center">CALL NOW!</h4>. These are very basic errors, fix it asap.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rocky Mountain Dude
    To everybody who replied to this thread;

    Thanks very much for your advice and help with this issue I found on my new website. I really appreciate the expert advice!

    Take care!
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