Title: Bug report: quotation marks in css
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Bug report: quotation marks in css

 *  [bphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bphil/)
 * (@bphil)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-report-quotation-marks-in-css/)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for making this great plugin! I noticed today a little bug concerning 
   the CSS edit field. I wanted a little more complex CSS in order to display an
   on-mouse-over message that the Link is broken (and has not been deliberately 
   crossed-out by the author). I pasted the following snippet into the CSS box:
 *     ```
       .broken_link, a.broken_link {
       	  border-bottom: 1px dotted red;
       	  position: relative;
       	}
       	.broken_link:after, a.broken_link:after {
       	  content: "Link checker has marked this link as broken";
       	  display: none;
       	  font-size: smaller;
       	  background-color: white;
       	  border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
       	  border-radius: 3px;
       	  padding: 2px 4px;
       	  position: absolute;
       	  top: 2em;
       	  left: 50%;
       	  white-space: nowrap;
       	}
       	.broken_link:hover, a.broken_link:hover {
       	  cursor: pointer;
       	}
       	.broken_link:hover:after, a.broken_link:hover:after {
       	  display: inline-block;
       	}
       ```
   
 * After submitting the line
 * `content: "Link checker has marked this link as broken";`
 * comes back as
 * `content: \"Link checker has marked this link as broken\";`
 * and the generated CSS is the same with the result that the content parameter 
   is ignored due to invalid property value.
 * I then edited the mysql DB directly and it worked. So I suppose there is a bug
   with the escapes.
 * Any chance this might get fixed?
 * Thanks,
    Philipp
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/)

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 *  [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-report-quotation-marks-in-css/#post-5023980)
 * This will be fixed in the next release. [The development version](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/broken-link-checker.zip)
   already has the patch.

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 * Last reply from: [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-report-quotation-marks-in-css/#post-5023980)
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