Re: Error relating to list within paragraph

"David Dorward" <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:36:27 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.validator
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 15 Mar 2015, at 8:17, Vernon wrote:
>
> The message said that the </p> at the end of this structure had been
> found but was not preceded by a <p> tag.  I circumvented the problem
> -- what ever it might have been -- by commenting out the closing </p>
> tag, whereupon the validator gave me a 'clean bill of health' (so to
> speak).

The end tag for a paragraph is optional and a paragraph may not contain a list. 

The ul start tag implicitly ends the paragraph. Therefore, there is no open paragraph for the paragraph end tag to end.

-- 
David Dorward
http://dorward.co.uk/
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