I had the same reaction. Looking into the documentation[0], it turns out that you can also use a div with data- attributes instead, like this: <div class="g-p

I had the same reaction. Looking into the documentation[0], it turns out that you can also use a div with data- attributes instead, like this: <div class="g-plusone" data-size="standard" data-count="true"></div> [0] http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/ http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/