Title: Validation Errrors Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Validation Errrors * [Jackinbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackinbox/) * (@jackinbox) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errrors/) * Hello, * Just noticed some new(er) validation errors, including pages that are not displaying the plugin. Maybe just a simple unencoded ampersand… I didn’t fiddle with the plugin code. Have a look, thanks: * > 706. if(document.getElementsByClassName && document.getElementsByTagName) { > 707. var pinit_class_tags = document.getElementsByClassName(“really_simple_share_pinterest”); > 708. for(i=0; i < pinit_class_tags.length; i++) { * > Warning Line 706, Column 40: character “&” is the first character of a delimiter > but occurred as data > if(document.getElementsByClassName && document.getElementsByTagName) { > ✉ > This message may appear in several cases: > You tried to include the “<” character in your page: you should escape it > as “<“ > You used an unescaped ampersand “&”: this may be valid in some contexts, > but it is recommended to use “&”, which is always safe. Another possibility > is that you forgot to close quotes in a previous tag. > Warning Line 706, Column 41: character “&” is the first character of a delimiter > but occurred as data > if(document.getElementsByClassName && document.getElementsByTagName) { > ✉ > This message may appear in several cases: > You tried to include the “<” character in your page: you should escape it > as “<“ > You used an unescaped ampersand “&”: this may be valid in some contexts, > but it is recommended to use “&”, which is always safe. Another possibility > is that you forgot to close quotes in a previous tag. > Warning Line 708, Column 17: character “<” is the first character of a delimiter > but occurred as data > for(i=0; i < pinit_class_tags.length; i++) { > ✉ > This message may appear in several cases: > You tried to include the “<” character in your page: you should escape it > as “<“ > You used an unescaped ampersand “&”: this may be valid in some contexts, > but it is recommended to use “&”, which is always safe. Another possibility > is that you forgot to close quotes in a previous tag. * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-facebook-twitter-share-buttons/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-facebook-twitter-share-buttons/) Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [whiletrue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiletrue/) * (@whiletrue) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errrors/#post-4233055) * Hi Jackinbox, I just fixed it, wrapping the JS code in a CDATA block as requested by XHTML). The new 2.14.1 plugin release should be out in minutes. Thanks a lot for your support! * Thread Starter [Jackinbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackinbox/) * (@jackinbox) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errrors/#post-4233174) * Your support on this FREE plugin is much appreciated & one reason why I use it! I’ll update later tonight. Thank you sir! * Have a look: * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/linksharereally/page/2?replies=34](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/linksharereally/page/2?replies=34) * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-alternatives-because-linkalpha-have-ruined-this?replies=5](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-alternatives-because-linkalpha-have-ruined-this?replies=5) * Thread Starter [Jackinbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackinbox/) * (@jackinbox) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errrors/#post-4233179) * Hello, * You sure you got them all? Still getting some extra validation errors. I didn’t look too deeply, obviously, figured you’d need to know anyway! 🙂 See below, & there are many more errors pertaining to the same. I also get a lot of errors pertaining to Strict doc type, but not much we can do there considering my theme. Thanks. * > Warning Line 140, Column 892: cannot generate system identifier for general > entity “media” > ✉ > An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by > that name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, > unencoded ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most > common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by > the WDG in “Ampersands in URLs”. > Entity references start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;). > If you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it > as “&” (even inside URLs!). Be careful to end entity references with a semicolon > or your entity reference may get interpreted in connection with the following > text. Also keep in mind that named entity references are case-sensitive; &Aelig; > and æ are different characters. > If this error appears in some markup generated by PHP’s session handling code, > this article has explanations and solutions to your problem. > Note that in most documents, errors related to entity references will trigger > up to 5 separate messages from the Validator. Usually these will all disappear > when the original problem is fixed. 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