Title: [Plugin: Sociable] Plugin breaks site validation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Sociable] Plugin breaks site validation

 *  [morgaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgaine/)
 * (@morgaine)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-plugin-breaks-site-validation/)
 * Unfortunately this plugin breaks site validation, because `&` is used instead
   of `&` in some urls (in sociable.php), more specifically those for ‘e-mail’,‘
   SalesMarks’, ‘Webnews.de’ and ‘Yigg’. Could you please change this in a next 
   version?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/)

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 *  [Joost de Valk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joostdevalk/)
 * (@joostdevalk)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-plugin-breaks-site-validation/#post-726841)
 * Fixed in 2.6.4 🙂 thx for noticing!
 *  [realepicurean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realepicurean/)
 * (@realepicurean)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-plugin-breaks-site-validation/#post-726842)
 * I’d had to make that tweak in sociable.php a while ago, too. Still a great plugin
   though.
 *  Thread Starter [morgaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgaine/)
 * (@morgaine)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-plugin-breaks-site-validation/#post-727057)
 * In the latest version of Sociable, the above described error has reappeared, 
   for Ratimarks. It breaks validation, so I changed it manually, but perhaps you
   can fix this in a next release?
 *  Thread Starter [morgaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgaine/)
 * (@morgaine)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-plugin-breaks-site-validation/#post-727058)
 * Another problem, when using XHTML 1.0 Strict as one’s doctype, is line 696 of
   sociable.php
 * I changed
 * `echo '<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="' . $sociablepluginpath.'
   wists.js"></script>'."\n";`
 * into
 * `echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="' . $sociablepluginpath . 'wists.js"
   ></script>'."\n";`
 * in order to have my site validate.
 *  [ddeconin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddeconin/)
 * (@ddeconin)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-plugin-breaks-site-validation/#post-727104)
 * When I run xhtml validation on my site I get
    ‘ Line 230, Column 21: document
   type does not allow element “div” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”,“
   iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag. <div class=”sociable”>’ for the code
   in my index.php <?php if (function_exists(‘sociable_html’)) { echo sociable_html();}?
   > Were you able to fix that ?

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