809 2004-06-22 18:58:41 +0000 'end tag for "HEAD" which is not finished' Error if <head> has no <title> 2005-12-17 15:37:07 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator check 0.7.0 Other other RESOLVED INVALID P2 normal --- 1 stolenclover link www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 2041 0 stolenclover 2004-06-22 18:58:41 +0000 Steps to reproduce: 1. Save the file below 2. Check the file via upload Result: See error: Line 5, column 6: end tag for "HEAD" which is not finished Expected Result: It should either validate or give more friendly error <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body> </body> </html> 2042 1 ot 2004-06-22 19:34:47 +0000 The error message explanation for this error (#73 "end tag for %1 which is not finished") already states [[ Another possibility is that you used an element (e.g. 'ul') which requires a child element (e.g. 'li') that you did not include. Hence the parent element is "not finished", not complete.]] Can't do much better without making a specific error for the lack of <title> in <head>, which we can't do with the current architecture. Can you suggest a better error message explanation? 2185 2 link 2004-09-01 10:20:36 +0000 Resolve INVALID as no feedback has been received since June. 7441 3 drewshirts 2005-12-14 15:55:35 +0000 I have duplicated this bug and found a workaround. If you add a title tag (e.g. "<title>This is my title</title>") it validates fine. 7517 4 link 2005-12-17 15:36:54 +0000 THat's not a workaround, it's a fix for the original problem in your markup. The 'head' element requires a 'title' element and the validator will tell you that the 'head' element is "not finished" if it finds the end tag for 'head' without having seen a 'title' element. IOW this was never a bug in the validator, it was a genuine error in your original markup. Closing as Invalid.