title: "Stray start tag footer" in html validator?
body: <p>I cannot work out why I am getting this error:  </p>
  
  <p>Stray start tag footer.
  </p>
  
  <p>This is the code (I took the content out, this is just the tags)</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!doctype html&gt;
  
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;title&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;
      &lt;meta name="keywords" content=""&gt;
      &lt;meta name="description" content=""&gt;
      &lt;meta name="author" content=""&gt;
      &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;img src="heading.jpg" width="840" alt="pic"&gt;
      &lt;!--&lt;div id="container"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; used ot set width of page --&gt;
      &lt;nav&gt;
          &lt;div id="columns"&gt;
              &lt;a href="index.html"&gt;Home&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;a href="products.html"&gt;Products&lt;/a&gt;
              &lt;a href="gift_ideas.html"&gt;Gift Ideas&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;br&gt;
          &lt;div id="link"&gt;
              &lt;a href="link1.html"&gt;link1&lt;/a&gt;|&lt;a href="link2.html"&gt;link2&lt;/a&gt;|&lt;a href="link3.html"&gt;link 3&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/nav&gt;
      &lt;section&gt;
          &lt;br&gt;
          &lt;div id="homePage"&gt;
              &lt;h1&gt;Welcome&lt;/h1&gt;
              &lt;br&gt;
              &lt;div id="cart"&gt;
                  &lt;img src&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/section&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;footer&gt;
      &lt;br&gt;
      &lt;h2&gt;Contact Us&lt;/h2&gt;
      Email: &lt;a href="email@example.co.nz"&gt;email@example.co.nz&lt;/a&gt;
      &lt;img src&gt;
  &lt;/footer&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am sure i have closed every tag, so what is the problem with the footer?</p>