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Posted by Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 Points

HTML5 Validation: "Error: Start tag body seen but an element of the same type was already open."

Stumped here. I whittled a copy of my code down to basically nothing to try and find the error but I can't see it.

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Responsive Layout Demo</title>
  </head>
  <header>
  </header>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

When I run this through the HTML5 Validator I get this error:

Error: Start tag body seen but an element of the same type was already open. From line 8, column 3; to line 8, column 8 header>↩ <body>↩ </b

2 Answers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,604 Points

Hey Brendan,

I don't know if that causes the problem but the header tags should be in the body.

Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,738 Points

That was the problem - thank you!!

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,604 Points

No problem, I'm glad I could help! :)

David Abel
David Abel
5,199 Points
David Abel
David Abel
5,199 Points

As Tobias pointed out, your header should be inside the body tag. Like this

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Responsive Layout Demo</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
    </header>
  </body>
</html>