Title: Validating a plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Validating a plugin

 *  [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-plugin/)
 * Hi,
    Site: [http://www.os42.com](http://www.os42.com) I am trying to keep my 
   site validated but having trouble with a plugin. The Gamerz poll hack includes
   some tables and `&nbsp`. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-plugin/#post-66443)
 * I think the hack author may be the best person.
    Part of the reason I stopped
   doing polls was their lack of validation, though that was a few years ago 🙂
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-plugin/#post-66454)
 * Simple fix. The output for the poll creation needs to self-terminate the [input]
   blocks. that is,
    ` <input type="radio" name="poll-6" class="poll" value="34"
   >  should be  <input type="radio" name="poll-6" class="poll" value="34" />  The
   extra slash before the ending is required. I add a space for readability, though
   it may not be required. -d [CHAITGEAR](http://www.chait.net)
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-plugin/#post-66495)
 * You want a closing / before the terminating > for the inputs — there are a number
   of them in the form, all need the forward slash.
    If you can’t quickly figure
   it out, I can post a modded polls.php later. -d
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-plugin/#post-66525)
 * Okay, I modded a copy (a bunch), and put it up at:
    [http://www.chait.net/downloads/polls.phps](http://www.chait.net/downloads/polls.phps)
   Try that out — I think I’ve fixed all the validation issues, and made the output
   HTML a bit more readable while I was at it. 😉 -d
 *  Thread Starter [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-plugin/#post-66570)
 * Excellent David,
    Thanks very much – first time I have seen a true validation
   since installing the poll. I am not sure what you did but whatever it was – it’s
   great 🙂 Thanks again…
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-plugin/#post-66587)
 * Aside from all the cleanup of the quoting strings, and adding more newlines…
   
   I just added a “/” before the closing “>” of each “<input” block. Rewriting the
   quoted strings made it a bit easier to see (a bit, not much) the ends. There 
   were at least three (but I think it was five or so total, did an img tag too).-
   d [CHAITGEAR](http://www.chait.net)

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-plugin/#post-66587)
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