Title: Widget registerred incorrectly
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Widget registerred incorrectly

 *  [ChrisCree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscree/)
 * (@chriscree)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-registerred-incorrectly/)
 * The widget is registered incorrectly using spaces in line 136 of the plugin. 
   This means WordPress assigns an ID to the widget which won’t validate on [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/)
 * The error that is thrown says, “value of attribute “id” must be a single token”(
   meaning no spaces are allowed for ID’s.)
 * This line 136:
    `wp_register_sidebar_widget('News announcement scroll', 'News
   announcement scroll', 'widget_news_announcement');` should be changed to this:`
   wp_register_sidebar_widget('news-announcement-scroll', 'news-announcement-scroll','
   widget_news_announcement');` to fix this problem.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/news-announcement-scroll/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/news-announcement-scroll/)

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 * Last reply from: [ChrisCree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscree/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-registerred-incorrectly/)
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