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Technology → Why a single character can fry a program...or a website

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1. Cat333Pokémon said on September 2, 2009, 08:18:48 PM (-07:00)

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I was validating parts of my website with the W3 Validator and found that the entire forum was invalid due to an extra <table> tag at the bottom. After correcting that, I found the main page had an error on it. I copied the source code to Microsoft Expression Web 2 and found the entire problem was caused by an extra </table> tag at the top of the forum, right below the Board Index link. After searching the code for nearly an hour and (you may have noticed this if you were online) breaking parts of the forum (which have now been fixed), I found the error.

Code:
	
		</table>
Look carefully. Do you see it?

Highlight for the answer:
It's the "f" in S_FIRST_ROW.
Yes, that's what caused the forum to appear a little messed up and invalidated the site.

2. Yoshi648 said on September 2, 2009, 08:56:49 PM (-07:00)

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It's simply amazing how one little error can mess up the code for anything.

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