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HTML Personal Profile Page

Posted by Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points

when I try to validate my html .. it says fatal error / no root element.

I get 2 errors in my html .. one fatal.

6 Answers

Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 18,011 Points

I see, I was using safari along with using the validation link the source provided . Maybe I should use a different browser lololol . Anyway glad to know there were no issues with my mark up. Thanks for the help it was really appreciated. Happy coding to you all.

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
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Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
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Hey there,

could you please share your code with us? :) No root element indicates that the html tag is missing but without seeing the code it's difficult to see where the problem might be.

Shawn Denham
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Shawn Denham
Python Development Techdegree Student 17,801 Points
Shawn Denham
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Shawn Denham
Python Development Techdegree Student 17,801 Points

To post your code to the forums wrap your code with 3 backticks (```) on the line before and after. If you specify the language after the first set of backticks, that'll help us with syntax highlighting.
Example:

```css
#body { color: black; }
```

Will look like:

#body {color: black;}
Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
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Le Var Range
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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Le Var Range's Profile</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
  <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Muli%7CRoboto:400,300,500,700,900" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>

    <div class="main-nav">
        <ul class="nav">
          <li class="name">Le Var Range</li>

          <li><a href="https://teamtreehouse.com/levarrange">Experience</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>

    <header>
      <img src="images/varlerang_chilling.jpeg" alt="Myself" class="profile-image"/>
      <h1 class="tag name">varlerang</h1>
      <p class="tag location">New York City</p>
    </header>



    <main class="flex">
      <div class="card">

       <div class="box">
        <img id="trio" src="images/trio_image.svg" alt="centriole" title="centriole"/>
        </div>

        <h2>Background</h2>
        <p>I’m an aspiring web designer who loves everything about the web. I also love everything about the sciences as well. I’m excited to learn all that there is to learn about programing, along  with procuring an awesome web development job.</p>
        <p>I like to draw, paint, snowboard, study martial arts, along with shooting the basketball from time to time. To put it all in a nutshell I  am a life-long learner who's always interested in expanding my skills in where ever my interest lead me.</p>
      </div> 

      <div class="card">
        <h2>Goals</h2>
        <p>I want to master the process of building web sites and increase my knowledge, skills and abilities in:</p>
        <ul class="skills">
          <li>HTML</li>
          <li>CSS</li>
          <li>JavaScript</li>
          <li>Ruby</li>
          <li>Rails</li>
          <li>Swift</li>
          <li>Objective-C</li>
          <li>C Language</li>
        </ul>
        <p>I would like to work for a web design firm helping clients create an impressive online presence, with my creativity.</p>

               <div class="box">
               <img id="chrome" src="images/chrome_img.svg" alt="chromosome" title="chomosome"/>

            </div>
   </div>
    </main>
    <footer>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#" class="social twitter">Twitter</a></li>
        <li><a href="#" class="social linkedin">LinkedIn</a></li>
        <li><a href="#" class="social github">Github</a></li>
      </ul>
      <p class="copyright">Copyright 2016, varlerang</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
  </html>
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Shawn Denham
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Shawn Denham
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Shawn Denham
Python Development Techdegree Student 17,801 Points

I looked over it and did not see any issues and I am not sure where you validated your HTML but when I pasted it into the W3C Markup Validation Service there was nothing wrong with it at all.

Hope this helps! -Shawn

Grayson Hary
Grayson Hary
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Grayson Hary
Grayson Hary
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I believe when I tried this in Safari I received the same error, but, if you try it in Chrome, it will not give you those same errors.