Here is a snippet of some code on my webpage (which I confirm is correct by viewing the source in the web browser):
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<div id="footer-search">
<form method="post" action="search.php">
<table style="padding:0px;">
<tr>
<td style="height: 25px; margin:0px;padding:0px;">
<input name="txtSearch" style="width: 100px" type="text" tabindex="1" />
</td>
<td style="height: 25px">
<input name="btnSearch" type="submit" value="Search" tabindex="2" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
But when I use the validator software to display this page, and then use it's validation command, it raised an error:
The "td" element must have an end tag (</td>) but the end tag was not found. In XHTML, all elements not declared as empty (like "b", "p", "span", etc.) must have an end tag. Elements declared as empty (like "br", "img", "input", etc.) can have an end tag or can use the empty element shorthand.
I looked at the code inside the validator software:
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<div id="footer-search">
<form method="post" action="search.php">
<table style="padding:0px;">
<tr>
<td style="height: 25px; margin:0px;padding:0px;">
<input name="txtSearch" style="width: 100px" type="text" tabindex="1" />
</td>
<td style="height: 25px">
<input name="btnSearch" type="submit" value="Search" tabindex="2" />
<td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
The </td> tag has become a <td> tag. Why?
