Title: HTML Minify -> CDATA Issue
Last modified: November 15, 2019
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# HTML Minify -> CDATA Issue
* Resolved [disturbed-pixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/disturbed-pixel/)
* (@disturbed-pixel)
* [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-minify-cdata-issue/)
* Hi,
* Before posting i have tried to dig deeper, but it seems that every time i enable
HTML minification i get the following errors (over 30) in the Chrome console:
* Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ‘<‘
* It’s related to every CDATA instance that the W3TC plugin wraps around any block
of of inline Javascript. I have tried changing my document type to XHTML and
XML encoding:
* — php
* ```
header("Content-type: application/xhtml+xml");
echo '';
```
* — html
* ```
```
* Which prevents this error occurring, but then it gives me many more issues minifying
anything after an ampersand for example “»”. Being that it’s strict.
* I’m using HTML5 doctype declarations
`` How can i minify the
HTML without the CDATA issue?
* I’ve seen posts talking about adding // before each CDATA block.
* ```
```
* Can we add this automatically?
* Please advise
Thanks
- This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by [disturbed-pixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/disturbed-pixel/).
- This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by [disturbed-pixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/disturbed-pixel/).
Reason: rephrase the point
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* Plugin Contributor [harryjackson1221](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harryjackson1221/)
* (@harryjackson1221)
* [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-minify-cdata-issue/#post-12138351)
* Hi [@disturbed-pixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/disturbed-pixel/)
* Sorry to hear you are having an issue with minify.
* I would love to see what we can do to help to resolve the issue you are facing.
What HTML minify engine are you using?
* Plugin Contributor [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
* (@vmarko)
* [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-minify-cdata-issue/#post-12170219)
* No activity dor a week. Marking topic as resolved!
* Thread Starter [disturbed-pixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/disturbed-pixel/)
* (@disturbed-pixel)
* [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-minify-cdata-issue/#post-12176155)
* Sorry, not had a chance to get back to you
* Plugin Contributor [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
* (@vmarko)
* [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-minify-cdata-issue/#post-12176167)
* Hello [@disturbed-pixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/disturbed-pixel/)
* No problem, can you please share What HTML minify engine are you using?
* Thread Starter [disturbed-pixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/disturbed-pixel/)
* (@disturbed-pixel)
* [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-minify-cdata-issue/#post-12176179)
* I was using the default minification engine, i had minify inline JS enabled.
* Since, i have made further tweaks and not experiencing this issue at present,(
cant remember the settings) unfortunately i have another issue now that i will
write up.
* Thanks
* Plugin Contributor [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
* (@vmarko)
* [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-minify-cdata-issue/#post-12176204)
* Hello,
I am glad to know this issue is resolved!
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## Tags
* [cdata](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cdata/)
* [html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html/)
* [W3TC](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/w3tc/)
* 6 replies
* 3 participants
* Last reply from: [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
* Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-minify-cdata-issue/#post-12176204)
* Status: resolved