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Pieter
Pieter

Reputation: 32765

Why does the W3C Validator fail on this JS code?

I'm trying to make a page XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant. One of the issues the Validator has with my code lies within the following line:

if (isNumeric(code) && code.length == 4) {

Error:

character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data

Here's another problematic line:

aData = data.split("&&");

Again, the error is this:

character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data

How do I fix this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5794

Answers (3)

Alex Gyoshev
Alex Gyoshev

Reputation: 11977

Javascript code should be placed within a CDATA declaration in order to pass XHTML validation.

Upvotes: 1

o.k.w
o.k.w

Reputation: 25810

My guess is your javascript codes are not enclosed porperly.

Take a look here:
Properly Using CSS and JavaScript in XHTML Documents

Exceprt: 

<script type="text/javascript">
  var i = 0;

  while (++i < 10)
  {
    // ...
  }
</script>

VS

<script type="text/javascript">
 //<![CDATA[
  var i = 0;

  while  (++i < 10)
  {
    // ...
  }
 //]]>
</script>

Upvotes: 7

Zed
Zed

Reputation: 57658

Wrap it in CDATA:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

Javascript here

//]]>
</script>

Upvotes: 4

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