Invalid W3C jQuery slider code

[Sl33k]

I am using a jQuery slider on a website but the code comes up with invalid, is there any wat to get around this without using a div tag? Thanks for any help on this:

Line 26, Column 27: document type does not allow element "div" here
.before('<div id="buttons">')

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#slider')
.before('<div id="buttons">')
.cycle({
fx: 'fade',
pager:  '#buttons'
});
});
</script>

[devnull69]

This is only W3C telling you that it doesn't know anything about HTML inside Javascript strings. You can just ignore this one!