my whole website validated in XHTML and CSS, and then I added in the final code from statcounter, checked for a last time and counted about 8 errors.

the offending code is:

<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
var sc_project=324426;
var sc_invisible=1;
var sc_partition=1;
var sc_security="";
//-->
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c2.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=324426&java=0&security=&invisible=1" alt="hit counter code" border="0"></a> </noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->

would really appreciate any ideas.

it partially worked - reduced the error to one:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var sc_project=324426;
var sc_invisible=1;
var sc_partition=1;
var sc_security="";
//-->
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c2.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=324426&java=0&security=&invisible=1" alt="hit counter code" border="0"></a> </noscript>

the last error is this:

Error Line 154 column 302: end tag for "img" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.
...alt="hit counter code" border="0"></a> </noscript>You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

thanks for the help, Kanashii. the page validated with this final code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var sc_project=324426;
var sc_invisible=1;
var sc_partition=1;
var sc_security="";
//-->
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script>

all I have to do now is upload it and see if it works on the web.

it would be useful to track all visitors since the website is for a small business and it's good to know which pages are most frequently visited. The problem is though that leaving in the no script causes the invalidation - for the reasons above. Any workarounds would be gratefully recieved.

Thanks a lot Nifkin. It worked. My website is now validated 100%.

I do have one last question though. It's about max-width. My website is liquid and above 1024x768 it stretches too wide in IE. The code I was using is:

width: 93%;
/* maximum width */
max-width:950px;
/* IE Dynamic Expression to set the width */
width:expression(document.body.clientWidth > 950 ? "950px" : "auto" );

although the code worked for IE, it didn't validate so I Ieft it out.

It's not a huge problem as people with large screens can always resize their browsers but I was just wondering if you knew of a valid way to do this?