All text underlined on blog

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  adventuresinprimetime · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:26 am

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  Hi,

  After publishing two new posts last night, all the text on my blog is now underlined – can can anyone advise a fix?

  Thanks!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  sl1k · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:34 am

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  Hello: adventuresinprimetime, I recommend going to your Settings → Writing → then check mark → “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” Then edit the affected posts and click on the eraser icon to strip all formatting from your post then click update

  The button is number 7 » http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/

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  phoxis · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:36 am

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  I cannot see anything like you say in your blog. Can you provide a link ?
  Most probably you have opened an underline tag and forgot to close it, or missed it.

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  adventuresinprimetime · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:43 am

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  The site affected is http://itsonitsgone.wordpress.com/ (it did ask me to select which one when I posted this but it doesn’t seem to be showing it)

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:47 am

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  This is generally cause by an open text formatting tag (no closing tag. Do as slikbonez suggests and that should fix it.

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  adventuresinprimetime · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:51 am

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  I did have trouble with one of the widgets last night and a quick look at it shows that somehow a ul tag was in there (there shouldn’t have been one) – removing that seems to have fixed it.

  Thanks for your help guys, scary how such a small error can do some much.

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  sl1k · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:53 am

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  You’re welcome!

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  phoxis · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:53 am

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  Probably your About The Blog widget started it.

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  adventuresinprimetime · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:55 am

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  It was actually the Coming Soon widget, no idea why there was a ul in there though

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 24, 2010 at 8:56 am

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  One thing I noticed is that you have a good number of formatting errors according to the W3C validator. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fitsonitsgone.wordpress.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 .

  Make sure and format the ending tags correctly. Many of your ending tags do not have the slash in them such as the following:

  <u>this is underlined text<u> there should be a slash in the ending tag such as </u>

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  adventuresinprimetime · Member · May 24, 2010 at 9:02 am

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  Thanks thesacredpath – I tend to use the editing tools in the system for most links (highlight text, insert link) so not sure why so many errors happen. These might be more in the widgets of course where it’s mostly manual.