Title: Row Layout invalid content errors
Last modified: January 30, 2019
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# Row Layout invalid content errors
* [Rick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murlyn/)
* (@murlyn)
* [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/row-layout-invalid-content-errors/)
* When I create Row Layout blocks, I then save, then when I come back to edit the
page I get this error “This block contains unexpected or invalid content.” and
the only options I have are “Resolve” and “Convert to HTML” and then I have to
redo everything. I can click on the three dots and convert to classic block and
things seem to be ok, but same thing again when I refresh the edit page. The
block content starts with a shortcode.. so Im not sure if that is causing issues.
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* [Aveias](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aveias/)
* (@aveias)
* [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/row-layout-invalid-content-errors/#post-11148147)
* I have exactly the same issue, my content is in several blocks in a row layout.
When I go on the edit page, all blocks are hided, only one block is showing “
This block contains unexpected or invalid content.”, and if I do anything (resolve,
convert to HTML or classic), I lose all my blocks and get only the last one,
containing a shortcode.
In looking at the revisions, I saw that the “uniqueID”
seems to change when the bloc show this errors.
* [EDIT] After a few investigations, this error seems to appear repeatedly when
adding a shortcode in a classic block. In using a shortcode block, it seems to
be OK (for now).
- This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by [Aveias](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aveias/).
* Thread Starter [Rick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murlyn/)
* (@murlyn)
* [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/row-layout-invalid-content-errors/#post-11149928)
* What is the proper way of using a shortcode, especially one that has a start
and end block, like [box][/box] with HTML and formatting in between that shortcode?
The regular shortcode block doesn’t allow for formatting and if the classic block
and the row layout is having issues with it.. how do you get around it?
* Plugin Contributor [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
* (@britner)
* [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/row-layout-invalid-content-errors/#post-11150051)
* Hey,
Thanks for posting, I’m not having this happen to me when I test. Could
you tell me what version of WordPress and Kadence Blocks you are using? Any other
variables I should know about to recreate?
* I tried with one and multiple shortcodes in the classic editor block.
* Ben
* [Kevin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jx-3p/)
* (@jx-3p)
* [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/row-layout-invalid-content-errors/#post-11150057)
* Can you share exactly what you’re placing within the shortcode block so that
I can test on my site?
* -Kevin
* Thread Starter [Rick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murlyn/)
* (@murlyn)
* [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/row-layout-invalid-content-errors/#post-11150173)
* It’s a theme specific shortcode, but here you go:
* [box]**Just a whole bunch of stuff**[/box]
* Now I think I might see the problem and it might not be a row layout issue. I
looked at the code and there will be improperly nested code:
* [box]**Just a whole bunch of stuff**
another
test[/box]
whole bunch of stuff
more stuff
This is the
parsed shortcode
`
* So if the content is this:
* ```
[box]This is the shortcode
Yep this is what it is.[/box]
```
* Then it renders as this:
* ```
This is the shortcode
Yep this is what it is.