Title: sanitize_title($linkhref)
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# sanitize_title($linkhref)

 *  [fuchsws](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fuchsws/)
 * (@fuchsws)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sanitize_titlelinkhref/)
 * I am having problems using german Umlauts (äöü) as the tab titles. it generates
   strange link anchors using $linkhref. using the following fixed it:
 * `$linkhref = sanitize_title($linkhref);`
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-post-tabs/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-post-tabs/)

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 *  [sukhada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sukhada/)
 * (@sukhada)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sanitize_titlelinkhref/#post-5295761)
 * Hi there,
 * Thank you for sharing the solution. Can you please attach the file name where
   you have put this function, so that it will be helpful for others. We will also
   use this function from next update in wordpress post tabs.
 * Thanks again.
 * Best regards,
    Sukhada, SliderVilla Support.
 *  Thread Starter [fuchsws](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fuchsws/)
 * (@fuchsws)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sanitize_titlelinkhref/#post-5295763)
 * in the main file “wordpress-post-tabs.php”, add directly after
 * `$linkhref=preg_replace('/\W/', '-', $linkhref);`

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 * Last reply from: [fuchsws](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fuchsws/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sanitize_titlelinkhref/#post-5295763)
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