W3C Validation when enabling Facebook-Connect

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  • coffee
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2001
    • 122
    • 4.0.x

    W3C Validation when enabling Facebook-Connect

    If your forum has Facebook-Connect enabled, then W3C validator won't let it pass unless you place Facebook meta code inside HTML-Comment as follows:
    1. ACP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Expand Templates > Facebook Templates > facebook_opengraph
    2. Add before the first line:
      HTML Code:
      <--
    3. Add after the last line:
      HTML Code:
      // -->


    The reason is that Facebook reads the code inside comments while W3C ignores it.

    Result is a valid page with functional FB-Connect.

    (Thread here)

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