Title: HTML5 Validation
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# HTML5 Validation

 *  [Ted Thompson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorokobi/)
 * (@yorokobi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-validation/)
 * HTML validation fails because of the tag <meta id=”syntaxhighlighteranchor” […]/
   >
 * Your comments in an earlier post stated that it was needed as a way to load CSS,
   and concluded that you would be trying to fix having to use it. (v of the plug
   in was 3.0.1)
 * The tag is still there in v3.1.3
 * I was able to validate by simply commenting out the `echo '<meta id="syntaxhighlighteranchor"
   name="syntaxhighlighter-version" content="' . esc_attr( $this->pluginver ) . '"/
   >' . "\n";`
    line, but I really hate to edit plugins since the next update will
   remove my hack.
 * Any thoughts?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-validation/)
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