28334 2015-03-25 16:01:47 +0000 Successful Validatation with missing closing BODY tag 2015-08-23 07:18:19 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator check HEAD PC Windows NT RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 normal --- 1 chris_longridge dave.null chris_longridge mike www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 118935 0 chris_longridge 2015-03-25 16:01:47 +0000 The following code validates successfully on the W3C Checker, but is actually missing a closing BODY tag: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge"> <meta name="description" content="À Tantôt! Modern Foreign Language (MFL) resources for the classroom and interactive whiteboards across Key Stage 2 (KS2), KS3 and KS4."> <title>À Tantôt</title> <link href="http://www.atantot.com/skin/atantot_main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> #skip { display: inline-block; position: absolute; padding: 20px; width: 100px; text-align: center; background: #fff; color: #000; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; border: 3px solid #000; border-radius: 7px; bottom: 40px; left: 50%; margin: 0 0 0 -73px; font-family: sans-serif; } #skip:hover { background: #4d86c7; color: #fff; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="flashholder" class="flashholder"> <object style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="flashfiles/index/flashindex.swf"> <param name="movie" value="flashfiles/index/flashindex.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="menu" value="false"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="flashfiles/index/flashindex.swf" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" menu="false" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="always"> </object> </div> <a href="menu.php" id="skip">Skip Intro</a> </html> 122720 1 mike 2015-08-23 07:18:19 +0000 The body end tag is not required. The validator is behaving as expected. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-body-element