Editing HTML

[woodwoman]

I'm editing my html to get rid of read more (yes, I downloaded the template first). I found the place in the template code and inserted this (found on net):


<div class='post-body entry-content'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style>.fullpost{display:inline;}</style>
<p/>

<p><dataost.body/></p>

<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

<div class='post-footer'>
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
<span class='post-author'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'/>
<data:top.authorLabel/> <dataost.author/>
<b:if/>
<span/>

Questions:
I keep getting an error message:
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The element type "span" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".

Can anyone tell me what this means and what I should do?
Am I even close to this being right?

[woodwoman]

For some reason, the lines with dataost are showing up with smiley faces. The correct code for these lines is datacolonpost The colon is not spelled out.

[woodwoman]

Ahmed,

I changed it and got the same error message. The template I downloaded to my hard drive has the erroneous read more code, in fact, I copied and pasted the the template code on the thread "read more won't go away. Is there a way we can paste the correct code in and I could cut and paste it to the code on my template?

Thanks,

Susie

[Inspirational Blogger]

Make sure all your <span> 's are closed with </span>

that SHOULD work. Are you using blogspot?

[sequencehosting]

Hello,

You also need to change the following:

<div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

to...

<div style='clear: both;'> <!-- clear for photos floats -->
</div>

Regards,
Jack

[MyEntro]

you could try posting the code as html so people can read it better.