Missing lines in table Options

[denmarks]

Sometimes when I display this page
http://dmmarks.com/hawaii.html
a few of the right outside lines on the table do not appear.
A refresh of the page fixes it. What could cause that?

[Darin McGrew]

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Error: character ï not allowed in prolog

This looks like an extraneous BOM, but regardless, it can throw browsers into quirks mode:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/

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Error: element a not allowed here; possible cause is an inline element containing a block-level element

This is a structural problem, and occurs several times. You're missing some closing </a> tags.

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The maximum number of errors was reached. Further errors in the document have not been reported.

There are probably more errors (including structural errors) but the validator won't report them until you fix the other errors.

[denmarks]

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Error: character ï not allowed in prolog

This looks like an extraneous BOM, but regardless, it can throw browsers into quirks mode:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/

CODE

Error: element a not allowed here; possible cause is an inline element containing a block-level element

This is a structural problem, and occurs several times. You're missing some closing </a> tags.

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The maximum number of errors was reached. Further errors in the document have not been reported.

There are probably more errors (including structural errors) but the validator won't report them until you fix the other errors.

Thank you for your help. I have fixed many of the important errors. I can not understand the first error. That is not in the HTML source.
EDIT: I have fixed the first error. I was defining the page as UTF8 which was not needed.

This post has been edited by denmarks: Jul 7 2011, 04:22 PM

[denmarks]

Is there a replacement for the marquee command which the validator does not like?

Many of the errors refer to links that I have copied from other sites. For example there are links to Princess.com for each city. There is no way to change them.

The page displays fine in IE and Firefox so does it really matter if I fix the minor errors?