Hi,

I am trying to validate my pages, but I am getting the following errors on which are for my twitter button. I am using HTML 4.01 Transitional. I have found that this version does not support these attributes, but is there any way to work around this so that I can have the button on my page? I saw that you can use an iframe, but that had it's own error and I would prefer not to use it.

•Line 16, character 12:
data-count="none" data-via="CozyCactusGifts">Tweet</a>
^Error: there is no attribute DATA-COUNT for this element (in this HTML version)

•Line 16, character 28:
data-count="none" data-via="CozyCactusGifts">Tweet</a>
^Error: there is no attribute DATA-VIA for this element (in this HTML version)


The page is: wedding gifts



Thanks for your help!

Well, there is no such attribute. They have invented it for their own use. It won't harm anything to leave it as it is.

Bummer! I like to keep my pages nice and validated -- makes me feel like I'm getting an A++ or something! Oh well

Thanks for the info!

It's surprising that Twitter does that. It must annoy many people. I didn't know.

What you could do, even if it's just paying lip service, is to let JavaScript write out the Twitter link so the validator doesn't see it. A little silly, me thinks, but it was a popular way to "hide" junk code while ago.

I did find that a lot of people had the same problem, but couldn't find any answers.



How do I do that?