diff --git a/themes/seven/maintenance-page.tpl.php b/themes/seven/maintenance-page.tpl.php
index aeef310df82b1f4a753dfee536320bd07b515f8c..a158dde393cf4edd45c4a68c50c25f6a0355dbf6 100644
--- a/themes/seven/maintenance-page.tpl.php
+++ b/themes/seven/maintenance-page.tpl.php
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-<?php
-?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php print $language->language ?>" lang="<?php print $language->language ?>" dir="<?php print $language->dir ?>">
<head>
diff --git a/themes/seven/page.tpl.php b/themes/seven/page.tpl.php
index b9d0ad554cd67bc3ef15c4f9c71e2af86a5f490e..4d40cf89c075032745b886d38e218534ed103a86 100644
--- a/themes/seven/page.tpl.php
+++ b/themes/seven/page.tpl.php
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-<?php
-?>
+
<div id="branding" class="clearfix">
<?php print $breadcrumb; ?>
<?php print render($title_prefix); ?>