• Resolved marieteather

    (@marieteather)


    Hi,

    Could someone tell me what is wrong with this code, please. It looks ok on my site but I am getting a red error message in the html editor.

    <div class=”wp-block-image”><figure class=”alignright is-resized”><figcaption><span style=”font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;”>Marie Teather,?<br/>Owner and Managing Editor, Olive Street Editorial</figcaption></figure></div>

    The error message says: Tag must be paired, missing: </span> start tag match failed [ span style=”font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;”> ] on line 1

    Thanks

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  • The error states:

    Tag must be paired, missing: </span>

    So what we’re looking for in the code block is an open <span> without a closing </span> tag. If we format and indent the code so it’s easier to read:

    <div class="wp-block-image">
    	<figure class="alignright is-resized">
    		<figcaption>
    			<span style="font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;">
    				Marie Teather, <br/>
    				Owner and Managing Editor, Olive Street Editorial
    		</figcaption>
    	</figure>
    </div>

    We can see directly inside the figcaption tag is an opening span but no closing span.

    Thread Starter marieteather

    (@marieteather)

    Thanks for explaining that – but I’m still not quite getting it. :/

    The figcaption looks closed to me. I see the </figcaption>

    Do I add a </span> ? I tried that earlier but no joy then….

    You would need to add a closing span </span> – post the full code and we’ll let you know what went wrong.

    Thread Starter marieteather

    (@marieteather)

    I fixed it!

    Thanks so much – spacing it out like you suggested really helped.

    ??

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