Title: W3C Code Validation Failure
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# W3C Code Validation Failure

 *  Resolved [silverlight001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/titaniumconsulting/)
 * (@titaniumconsulting)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-code-validation-failure/)
 * Hi,
 * The plugin causes my site to fail W3C validation.
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wordpress-web-design.co&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wordpress-web-design.co&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
 * There are 11 validation errors.
 * Please can these be fixed in the next release.
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Niall Kennedy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niallkennedy/)
 * (@niallkennedy)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-code-validation-failure/#post-3304146)
 * The validation errors you mention are related to HTML5 data-* attributes output
   by the plugin for interpretation by the Facebook JavaScript SDK.
 * Offering a toggle between HTML5 data-* markup and XFBML markup is not something
   in mainline development for future releases.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3c-code-validation-failure/#post-3304146)
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