Title: Validation Errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Validation Errors

 *  [cableghost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cableghost/)
 * (@cableghost)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-7/)
 * I have the following code for bookmarking a site in Yahoo Buzz. This works fine,
   except, it produces a validation error for the ampersand (&).
 * Is it possible to recode the entire phrase to validate? BTW, I tried switching‘&’
   for ‘$amp;’…no luck.
 *     ```
       http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?targetUrl=<?php the_permalink() ?>&headline=<?php the_title(); ?>&summary=<?php the_excerpt(); ?><img src="../images/yahoo.png" alt="Y" width="26" height="26" border="0" /></a>
       ```
   

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-7/#post-1431312)
 * The correct code is `&amp`.
 *  Thread Starter [cableghost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cableghost/)
 * (@cableghost)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-7/#post-1431445)
 * Thank you, however, that also produces errors from validation.w3.org.
 * It could possibly be because I am mixing html & php code.
 * -Scott
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-7/#post-1431450)
 * As far as the validator is concerned you are only outputting html. It doesn’t
   see any php. &+amp+; (minus the + marks) is the correct code. Please post your
   url.

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 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)

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 * Last reply from: [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-7/#post-1431450)
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