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Twitter Integration and Validation issue

  • Hi guys,

    I'm having a problem with my twitter in my Sidebar. I can get it to work but then the Site is not Valid according to W3C but if I wrap those CDATA Tags around it it won't display in firefox anymore. It's based on one of Chris's Downloads but for the life me I just cannot get it to work properly while valid.

    http://karbondesigns.com/Wordpress/
    <div id=\"socialsidebar\">

    <div class=\"widget\">
    <div class=\"inside\">
    <h4>Twitter</h4>
    <div id=\"twitter_div\"><ul id=\"twitter_update_list\"><li></li></ul></div>

    <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js\"></script>
    <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/joelcummings.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=2\"></script>

    </div>
    </div>

    <div class=\"widget\">
    <div class=\"inside\">
    <h4>Ads</h4>
    <div class=\"ad\"><h2>AD</h2></div>
    <div class=\"ad\"><h2>AD</h2></div>
    </div>
    </div>


    <div class=\"widget\">
    <div class=\"inside\">
    <h4>Track Me!</h4>
    <ul>
    <li><p>Facebook</p></li>
    <li><p><a href=\"www.twitter.com/joelcummings\">Twitter</a></p></li>
    <li><p>Flickr</p></li>
    <li><p>Pownce</p></li>
    </ul>
    </div>
    </div>


    </div>
  • Looks like an irrelevant ampersand-related warning. If it's killing you, just replace the ampersand with &amp; in the URL, should still work.
  • Thank you Chris, That fixed the issue!