Code added to document when opening in Dreamweaver

Question

When I open a .html document in dreamweaver it is mysteriously adding code (<a href="#"></a>) to my list item - see below
<li><a href="#">Systems
</a><table><tr><td><ul>
    <li>
    <a href="#"></a><a href="gatso.html">Gatsometer</a></li>
    <li><a href="pips.html">PIPS Technology</a></li>
    <li><a href="speedar.html">Speedar</a></li>
    <li><a href="aspect.html">Aspect</a></li>
    </ul>
</td></tr></table></a>
</li>
When I open the same document in Text Wrangler it looks as it should - see below
<li><a href="#">Systems
</a><table><tr><td><ul>
    <li><a href="gatso.html">Gatsometer</a></li>
    <li><a href="pips.html">PIPS Technology</a></li>
    <li><a href="speedar.html">Speedar</a></li>
    <li><a href="aspect.html">Aspect</a></li>
    </ul>
</td></tr></table></a>
</li>
This has suddenly started hapening and is very strange. It didn't used to happen. Does anyone know why?

Answer 1

Jasprizza wrote:
When I open the same document in Text Wrangler it looks as it should - see below
<li><a href="#">Systems
</a><table><tr><td><ul>
    <li><a href="gatso.html">Gatsometer</a></li>
    <li><a href="pips.html">PIPS Technology</a></li>
    <li><a href="speedar.html">Speedar</a></li>
    <li><a href="aspect.html">Aspect</a></li>
    </ul>
</td></tr></table></a>
</li>
Without seeing the rest of the page, it's impossible to judge, but the code you have posted here is invalid.
Apart from the fact that it seems very strange to put an unordered list inside a single-cell table nested in the list item of another list, you have a closing </a> tag without a matching opening one on the penultimate line (it's after  the closing </table> tag).
No wonder Dreamweaver is getting confused.