Validation errors - no attribute DATA-COUNT,DATA-VIA Options

[Beth]

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

CODE

<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button"
data-count="none" data-via="CozyCactusGifts">Tweet</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></li>

Thanks for your help!

[pandy]

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.

[Beth]

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!

[pandy]

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.

[Beth]

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

let JavaScript write out the Twitter link so the validator doesn't see it

How do I do that?