HTML Widget Issues: Special Character Must Be Escaped

  • Resolved Syd W

    (@woolgather18)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hey, you techy people—

    I’ve had my friend who’s fluent at code look at this and we can’t figure it out.
    I’m trying to add a PayPal donate button (with my Paypal.me link) to the footer of my site.

    Here’s what I’m trying to put:

    <center><a href="https://www.paypal.me/VidemusArt/"target="_blank"></a> <img src="https://imgur.com/a/fKSRMOG" width="50" height="50" style="padding-right:9px; align:center;" alt="Donate"></center>

    To my knowledge (which is admittedly limited), this is standard HTML, and for some reason, WP will not allow me to save it unless I get rid of all the < and > marks.
    But when I do, or when I replace them with [], the code shows up plain on my site.

    I’m at a complete loss. Can anyone here please tell me what the heck I’m doing wrong? I have several social icons at the bottom right of my footer as well. It also says those are full of errors, so I don’t touch them or else none of them will be usable.

    Any info would be amazing. Thank you!

    – Syd

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • To be honest, I don’t know exactly what’s going wrong here, but I noticed that if I fix the missing space between href and target in your <a> tag, the error goes away:

    <a href="https://www.paypal.me/VidemusArt/" target="_blank"></a>

    (Also, I’m guessing that the <img> tag should be between the opening and closing <a> tag.)

    Thread Starter Syd W

    (@woolgather18)

    Oh, Stephen, if I had only asked you months ago. Haha. Your suggestions fixed all the errors and it seems we’re up and running now. You’re amazing. Thank you so much for helping out a dummy like me. ??

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