"Stray start tag footer" in html validator?

html css validation

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You need to move the </body> end tag at the very end, because a footer element must not appear after the body element but inside it. This follows from the syntax of the root element, the html element: it contains a head element and a body element, nothing more.

The validator says “Stray start tag footer” because the start tag appears in a context where no elements can be started – after the </body> tag, where only the optional </html> tag may appear.

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Hayley van Waas

Updated on July 20, 2022

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Hayley van Waas almost 2 years

I cannot work out why I am getting this error:

Stray start tag footer.

This is the code (I took the content out, this is just the tags)

<!doctype html>

<head>
    <title>title</title>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="keywords" content="">
    <meta name="description" content="">
    <meta name="author" content="">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
</head>
<body>
    <img src="heading.jpg" width="840" alt="pic">
    <!--<div id="container"></div> used ot set width of page -->
    <nav>
        <div id="columns">
            <a href="index.html">Home</a>
            <a href="products.html">Products</a>
            <a href="gift_ideas.html">Gift Ideas</a>
        </div>
        <br>
        <div id="link">
            <a href="link1.html">link1</a>|<a href="link2.html">link2</a>|<a href="link3.html">link 3</a>
        </div>
    </nav>
    <section>
        <br>
        <div id="homePage">
            <h1>Welcome</h1>
            <br>
            <div id="cart">
                <img src>
            </div>
        </div>
    </section>
</body>
<footer>
    <br>
    <h2>Contact Us</h2>
    Email: <a href="[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
    <img src>
</footer>

I am sure i have closed every tag, so what is the problem with the footer?