Closing paragraph tags being ingnored

[KeredDrahcir]

I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I'm getting validation errors where I'm told I'm trying to open a div inside a paragrpah.
I'm closing the paragrpah before I open the div but for some reason the validator doesn't see the closing p tag ans when I view source, the browser doesn't see it.
It's quite definatly in the code.

<div class="my class">
  <p style="text-align: center;">
    <br />
    <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick = "my script">
      <img width="225" height="228" src="my image" alt="" />
    </a></p>
<div style="position: fixed; top:50px; left: 25%;">My content</div></div>

That is my code but the closing p tag after the closing a tag goes missing. It does it more than once.

[drhowarddrfine]

Which browser? That should validate so it depends on what's going on before that.

I wouldn't be using XHTML self closing tags like <br /> or <img/> in HTML markup cause it's unnecessary and sometimes leads to problems.

[KeredDrahcir]

I need to use the self-closing tags because I'm using XHTML. I know that the code should validate but the browser missed out the closing paragraph tag. I get it in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera.

I did fix it using a division instead of a paragraph but I don't want to have to that every time and would like to know why it happens. Any other ideas?

[drhowarddrfine]

the browser missed out the closing paragraph tag. I get it in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera.

Sounds like you're contradicting yourself. I don't see the problem.

[KeredDrahcir]

I meant I get the problem.

This is my code:

    <div class="my class">
      <p style="text-align: center;">
        <br />
        <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick = "my script">
          <img width="225" height="228" src="my image" alt="" />
        </a></p>
    <div style="position: fixed; top:50px; left: 25%;">My content</div></div>
 

This is what the browser shows:

    <div class="my class">
      <p style="text-align: center;">
        <br />
        <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick = "my script">
          <img width="225" height="228" src="my image" alt="" />
        </a>
    <div style="position: fixed; top:50px; left: 25%;">My content</div></div>
 

Notice the difference on the second to last line.

[drhowarddrfine]

I just don't see that. Perhaps your script is doing something?

[KeredDrahcir]

Do you notice that the closing paragrpah tag afer the closing anchor is missing in the second piece of code?
If you're asking if the onclick script is affect it, then I can be sure that it isn't all it does it changes the display values of two divisions.

[drhowarddrfine]

Yes I saw that but I don't see the problem in any browsers myself.

[KeredDrahcir]

So you have no idea what's causing it for me? Is that correct?

[drhowarddrfine]

Yep .