html validation - html code help

<LT>Objective:</LT>
<UL>
<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>
</UL>

<UL>
<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>

<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>
<LI>foobar</LI>
</ul>

> 1. What is the reward, the reason to strive for a validating page?

> 2. Given the code snippet below which does not validate - how can
> accomplish the same "look" with code that does validate? Please without
> CSS, just html.

David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>

> Newbie esp about html validation - seems like something to strive for.
> Yet many pages even "enterprise" corporate type pages do not validate,
> yet seem to display well on most browsers. Two questions:
>
> 1. What is the reward, the reason to strive for a validating page?

>
> 2. Given the code snippet below which does not validate - how can
> accomplish the same "look" with code that does validate? Please without
> CSS, just html. Thanks
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<LT> ??? Lithuania Online is the closest Google brought me.

> Newbie esp about html validation - seems like something to strive for.
> Yet many pages even "enterprise" corporate type pages do not validate,
> yet seem to display well on most browsers. Two questions:
>
> 1. What is the reward, the reason to strive for a validating page?
>
> 2. Given the code snippet below which does not validate - how can
> accomplish the same "look" with code that does validate? Please without
> CSS, just html. Thanks

The only thing invalid about your code is you made up your own <LT> tag.

is that you think the <LT> tag is contributing the the look of the page,

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> Newbie esp about html validation - seems like something to strive for.
> Yet many pages even "enterprise" corporate type pages do not validate,
> yet seem to display well on most browsers. Two questions:
>
> 1. What is the reward, the reason to strive for a validating page?