Title: [Plugin: WP phpBB Bridge] Topics Widget – XHTML validation issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP phpBB Bridge] Topics Widget – XHTML validation issues

 *  Resolved [doktornotor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doktornotor/)
 * (@doktornotor)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-topics-widget-xhtml-validation-issues/)
 * 1/ The forum links generate invalid code. Patch:
 * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code).
   Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)]_
 * 2/ When logged on, there are also validation warnings for the `<label for="password"
   >` and `<label for="username">` fields – reference to non-existent ID “username”/”
   password” , since their content is empty. (Not patched above.)
 * (P.S. – Eh, the code tag here mangles things! Grrr. Simply, there should be the`
   amp;` appended before `t=` and `u=` on the two offending lines.)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/)

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 *  Thread Starter [doktornotor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doktornotor/)
 * (@doktornotor)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-topics-widget-xhtml-validation-issues/#post-2371198)
 * Erm, guys – could you kindly apply the patch? Tired of fixing it every day on
   every new release.
 * P.S. Good that the topic got “moderated”, maybe you could instead fix the code
   tag to work properly. Pastebins are completely stupid way to post any patches
   anywhere.
 *  Plugin Author [Nikos Merianos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merianos/)
 * (@merianos)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-topics-widget-xhtml-validation-issues/#post-2371205)
 * [@doktornotor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doktornotor/):
 * >  [Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]
 * The above is auto generated by WordPress. There is no modification to your first
   topic.
 * Please can you provide me with your code in order to see what’s wrong with that?
 * Note that in some cases the code can be not valid, based on your Web Site DOCTYPE.
   That means that your DOCTYPE may not support that format, but other DOCTYPE can
   supported.
 *  Thread Starter [doktornotor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doktornotor/)
 * (@doktornotor)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-topics-widget-xhtml-validation-issues/#post-2371218)
 * There was a patch inlined which was moderated, suggesting to use pastebin instead;
   definitely not autogenerated comment at all. Yeah, I could provide you with the
   code again:
 * [http://pastebin.com/YUhrdbLk](http://pastebin.com/YUhrdbLk)
 * This has nothing to do with DOCTYPE, you simply need to use the entity for & 
   char in URLs in that widget.
 *  Plugin Author [Nikos Merianos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merianos/)
 * (@merianos)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-topics-widget-xhtml-validation-issues/#post-2371235)
 * doktornotor can you please provide me with you web site link to the page that
   uses the widget ?
 *  Thread Starter [doktornotor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doktornotor/)
 * (@doktornotor)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-topics-widget-xhtml-validation-issues/#post-2371236)
 * Updated to (unpatched) 2.0.5: [http://lg-p500.zrusit.eu/blog/](http://lg-p500.zrusit.eu/blog/)
 * I really do not understand what is so hard to understand here. This causes one
   validation error plus loads of additional warnings for every forum link included
   via that widget – which all are gone when you replace the & with the appropriate
   entity – as required for any XHTML doctype out there.
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://lg-p500.zrusit.eu/blog/](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://lg-p500.zrusit.eu/blog/)
 *  Plugin Author [Nikos Merianos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merianos/)
 * (@merianos)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-topics-widget-xhtml-validation-issues/#post-2371237)
 * OK. Everything is fine. I already made some changes to the code. So I will add
   your modifications too ! 🙂
 * Kind regards and really thanks a lot for your assistance 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [doktornotor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doktornotor/)
 * (@doktornotor)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-topics-widget-xhtml-validation-issues/#post-2371238)
 * Thanks as well… 😉

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