No errors found in calibre, but epub check found errors

[LarkinJM]

Hello,

My name is Jennifer, and I am new to this forum. please forgive me if this has been addressed elsewhere, but I could not find a corresponding thread.

I am resubmitting a revised book to lulu.com for publishing. I am using version 4.11.2 of Calibre. The program finds no errors, but lulu and epubcheck are coming up with:

Error while parsing file 'element "p" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag, text or element "a", "abbr", "acronym", "applet", "b", "bdo", "big", "br", "cite", "code", "del", "dfn", "em", "i", "iframe", "img", "ins", "kbd", "map", "noscript", "ns:svg", "object", "q", "samp", "script", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "tt" or "var" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")'.

I get this several times. here is an example of some of the lines referenced:


<h2>

<p class="block_21" id="calibre_pb_8">6</p>

<p class="block_24">The Real Enterprise</p>

</h2>

Perhaps I am doing my headings wrong?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Jen L.

[Turtle91]

Welcome to MR Jennifer!

You don't need to put a <p> tag within an <h2> tag. One tag is saying that you are creating a header, the other is saying you are creating a paragraph...you can't do both.

For a quick answer, simply change your headers to something like this:

<h2>6 <span>The Real Enterprise</span></h2>

and include something like this in your CSS file (of course you can change this however you wish to make the header look any way you want):

h2 {font-weight:bold; font-size:1.3em; text-align:center; font-family:serif}
h2 span {display:block; font-size:.8em; margin-top:.5em; font-variant:small-caps}

The longer answer is spend a little bit of time reading the html/css tutorials available here on MR's wiki, or at W3Schools HTML and CSS website. That will help you out tons.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by LarkinJM

I get this several times. here is an example of some of the lines referenced:

  <h2>

    <p class="block_21" id="calibre_pb_8">6</p>

    <p class="block_24">The Real Enterprise</p>

  </h2>

As turtle91 stated, not all elements can be nested.

For future use, you might want to add the epubcheck plugin to calibre's editor. It is a much better error checker than the builtin calibre error checker. See [Editor Plugin] EpubCheck for information on installing, etc.

For your sample, something like the following would work (the <br /> breaks the output into two lines).

<h2><span class="block_21" id="calibre_pb_8">6</span><br />
    <span class="block_24">The Real Enterprise</span></h2>

[LarkinJM]

Thanks for the quick responses!

I will get that epubcheck plugin for Calibre, and make the necessary changes.

Jen L