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[SOLVED] Sociable plugin and XHTML Strict Validation

Hi I'm running Wordpress 2.8.4 with Atahualpa 3.4.1. I have had no problems until today when I installed Sociable 3.4.4. After adding the %sociable% info item to the post footer on the "Edit POST/PAGE INFO ITEMS" form, I started getting XHTML strict validation errors on http://validator.w3.org.

Here is one of the errors: document type does not allow element "ul" here. I traced that to this code snippet:

HTML Code:

<span class="sociable">

<ul>

        <li>...</li>

</ul>

</span>

If I remember my XHTML strict rules correctly, this is illegal because "span" is an inline element and "ul" is a block element. That is, you are not allowed to put a block element inside an inline element.

Instead of a "span" I think the code should generate a "div" when it is rendering the %sociable% info item.

I could be wrong though (I often am).

FWIW, I fixed this by making some minor changes to bfa_sociable2.php.

Specifically, I changed from this:

PHP Code:


		
			
$html .= "\n<span class=\"sociable\">\n";

...

$html .= "</ul>\n</span>\n";

to this:

PHP Code:


		
			
$html .= "\n<div class=\"sociable\">\n";

...

$html .= "</ul>\n</div>\n";

As you can see, I simply changed the span element to a div element. I hope that helps someone else that doesn't like seeing XHTML validation errors. :)