Title: [Plugin: Popular Widget] invalid HTML – p inside span
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Popular Widget] invalid HTML – p inside span

 *  [Jon Scaife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonscaife/)
 * (@jonscaife)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-popular-widget-invalid-html-p-inside-span/)
 * When I use this plugin it causes a validation failure because it generates P 
   tags inside SPAN tags. Please could you fix this when you next update. I have
   successfully fixed the problem by replacing the span tags with div tags as detailed
   below…
 * On lines 114, 174, 237, 288
    replace: `$output .= isset($image) ? $image.'<span
   class="pop-overlay">':'<span class="pop-text">';` with: `$output .= isset($image)?
   $image.'<div class="pop-overlay">':'<span class="pop-text">';`
 * On lines 121, 182, 246, 295
    replace: `$output .= '</span></a><div class="pop-
   cl"></div></li>'; $count++;` with: `$output .= '</div></a><div class="pop-cl"
   ></div></li>'; $count++;`
 * This doesn’t seem to have had any negative side effects but I haven’t checked
   all configurations for any css errors
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popular-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popular-widget/)

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## Tags

 * [<p>](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/p/)
 * [div](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/div/)
 * [validator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validator/)

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 * Last reply from: [Jon Scaife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonscaife/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-popular-widget-invalid-html-p-inside-span/)
 * Status: not resolved