# Meta tag within table

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-tag-within-table/150047
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 1, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-tag-within-table/150047 "2020-05-01T10:12:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-tag-within-table/150047/1 "2020-05-01T10:12:44Z")

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See #3 and #4 here [https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.discourse.org](https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.discourse.org)

**Error** : Start tag `meta` seen in `table` .From line 87, column 12; to line 88, column 89 ` <tbody>↩ <meta itemprop='itemListOrder' content='http://schema.org/ItemListOrderDescending'>↩ `

**Fatal Error** : Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored.From line 87, column 12; to line 88, column 89 ` <tbody>↩ <meta itemprop='itemListOrder' content='http://schema.org/ItemListOrderDescending'>↩ `

Caused by [this](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/4a47ec791ff8f26a5ad1f3f2521e47d17e7f5355) commit. See also discussion below that.  
Partly but not completely fixed by [this](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7324) commit.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-tag-within-table/150047/2 "2020-05-01T20:45:06Z")

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We should fix this @eviltrout

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-tag-within-table/150047/3 "2020-05-04T02:33:07Z")

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I think @dan was working on redoing a lot of this with the IE deprecation work. Maybe he can investigate?

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### Author: ![dan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dan/32/101549_2.png) [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-tag-within-table/150047/5 "2020-05-05T14:28:51Z")

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Fixed the validation issues related to [schema.org](http://schema.org) in this commit:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/1019789d1a3b7cdadc89482aeead374b81f2164b](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/1019789d1a3b7cdadc89482aeead374b81f2164b)

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### Author: ![dan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dan/32/101549_2.png) [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-tag-within-table/150047/6 "2020-05-05T14:28:55Z")

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