Hit Counters and <noscript> errors

errors occur during validation

[jimshu79]

Anyone else experiencing this? If so what are some options to pass validation...?

Ex:
Line 99, column 123: document type does not allow element "NOSCRIPT" here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag
...ounter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com" ta

[DrDoc]

Where's the noscript tag currently located?

[RonPK]

Make sure it's not <p><noscript>inside a paragraph</noscript></p>.

[jimshu79]

I dont know why i dont get the error anymore... =/ i think it's maybe cause i corrected other errors. thanks for the tips!

[vkaryl]

Seems like a good place to post this:

I've used Muquit's counters for years. When I decided (late, admittedly but then better late than never as some famous person said!) to migrate all my pages (hundreds on various sites) to html 4.01 strict, I immediately began to have errors (other than the norm *sigh* - doesn't matter how good YOU think you are, only how good W3C thinks you are....) on the counter-code itself on every page where a counter was installed.

An email to Muhammed Muquit got no helpful response. So I posted around various sites with info on CSS, newer versions of html, etc. and finally someone pointed me in the right direction.

The counters use EITHER "&" or "¦" as variable-expression concatenators. Since newer html is FAR more persnickety about the "&" symbol (requiring it to be escaped if used at all), only the "¦" symbol is usable in the concatenation of variables in Muquit's counters. While the docs for the counters address using either/or, nowhere is it addressed that you MUST use "¦" in order to validate under html 4.01 strict.

Counters all validate fine now. Hopefully this will help another person with way too much to learn in way too little time....

[g1smd]

Another one to note is that closing HTML tags inside document.write statements, need to be escaped too.

Change stuff like </a> and </tr> to be <\/a> and <\/tr> instead.