Google search script validation.

Question

Any idea how to get rid of the validation error in this script..Thank you. It does not show as an error in EW1. Line 2 the a in search is highlighted.
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I have tried to figure this out but with no success.

Validation Output: 1 Error

1. Line 153, Column 93: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter

   …c="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></script><br />

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   If you meant to include an entity that starts with "&", then you should terminate it with ";". Another reason for this error message is that you inadvertently created an entity by failing to escape an "&" character just before this text.

2. Line 153, Column 80: EntityRef: expecting ';'

   …c="http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></script><br />

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Answer 1

Change
http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en

to

http://www.google.com/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en

The character "&" is regarded as the start of an HTML entity, which is terminated by a semi-colon - in the original snippet the entity is started, but never terminated.

A badly written script may throw an error if & is relaced by & - if this is the case then you may have to revert to the erroneous code, and ignore the error message

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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)

www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

Answer 2

Thanks Ron. That took care of the error reporting in the validator.

Have a good day.

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