Validator Errors

[Xtremer360]

I'm getting a lot of errors from the validator but not sure how to correct them and the majority of them are coming from the function below.

 

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kansasoutlawwrestling.com%2Findex.php&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

 

function top5(){
$query = "SELECT * FROM `efed_list_top5` ORDER BY `id` DESC LIMIT 1";
if(!$result = mysql_query($query)){ debug($query); }
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$labels = array('bio1_id' ,'bio2_id', 'bio3_id', 'bio4_id', 'bio5_id');
$chars = array('char1', 'char2', 'char3', 'char4', 'char5');
	for($i = 0; $i < count($labels); $i++){
		if($row[$labels[$i]] != 0){
			$query2 = "SELECT * FROM `efed_bio` WHERE `id` = '" . $row[$labels[$i]] . "'";
			$result2 = mysql_query($query2);
			$row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($result2);
			$last_rank = 'N/A';
			$query3 = "SELECT * FROM `efed_list_top5` WHERE `id` = '" . $row['id'] - 1 . "'";
			if($result3 = mysql_query($query3)){
				$row3 = mysql_fetch_assoc($result3);
				for($p = 0; $p < count($labels); $p++){
					if($row3[$labels[$p]] == $row[$labels[$i]]){
						$last_rank = $p + 1;
					}
				}
			}
			print '<span class="block red_text">' . ($i + 1) . '. ' . $row2['charactername'] . '(' . $last_rank . ')</span>';
		}
		else{
			print '<span class="block red_text">' . ($i + 1) . '. TBA</span>';
		}

	}
}

[slurpee]

This should probably be in HTML help, but it looks like you have a <span> tag immediately following an <ol> tag.  As the error on the validation page states (and quoted below), this isn't valid HTML according to XHTML 1.0 Transitional.  It is expecting an <li> tag after an <ol> tag.

 

Line 105, Column 33: document type does not allow element "span" here; assuming missing "li" start-tag

 

Try changing to this:

 

	
for($i = 0; $i < count($labels); $i++){
  print '<li>';
  if($row[$labels[$i]] != 0){
  /// All 'if' stuff here
  } else {
  /// All 'else' stuff here
  }
  print '</li>';
}