[Plugin: Fixed Social Buttons] WC3 Validation Errors – & issues
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Hi
This is a very good plugin but there is one small issue that i feel could easily be resolved, it fails the WC3 validation for code and after examining the issues it appears to be a simple case that & is the problem, in html you need to have & (amp;)
If you check below you will see its the & issue causing the validation errors with this plugin, i would imagine it’s an easy fix and would hope the plugin gets an update.
In the meantime i may disable it, my site was fully WC3 valid and i feel proud to have it that way when so many sites don’t care thus i would hope the plugin gets an update to fix this issue.
An few examples of what the validator is saying below.
Line 983, Column 131: cannot generate system identifier for general entity “t”
An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by that name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in “Ampersands in URLs”.
Entity references start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;). If you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it as “&” (even inside URLs!). Be careful to end entity references with a semicolon or your entity reference may get interpreted in connection with the following text. Also keep in mind that named entity references are case-sensitive; &Aelig; and æ are different characters.
Line 985, Column 143: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
If you meant to include an entity that starts with “&”, then you should terminate it with “;”. Another reason for this error message is that you inadvertently created an entity by failing to escape an “&” character just before this text.
Line 991, Column 138: reference to external entity in attribute value
This is generally the sign of an ampersand that was not properly escaped for inclusion in an attribute, in a href for example. You will need to escape all instances of ‘&’ into ‘&’.
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