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Youtube/Adsense player breaking W3C validation

Posted By Scott Klarr on Feb 03, 2008 at 12:42 am

I work hard to make my code W3C valid and cross-browser/cross-platform compliant. With the big push for sites to follow standards, I decided a while back to strip away my old poor coding habits and take the extra steps to make it perfect. In fact I kind of get a rush when I run a W3C validator on a newly coded layout to see no errors.

That being said, I was vary disappointed when I added the youtube/adsense player you see at the bottom of this page only to find out that it breaks the W3C standards. The reason being is that the containing div has an ID set that contains an equal mark in it, which is not allowed to be within the ID attribute of any html object.

If the player does not show any usage stats that make me believe its worth keeping, I will most likely remove it because I am kind of picky about those sorts of things. I do hope Google will fix this issue. Why in the world do they need an equal sign in there anyways?!

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