Title: short code is messing up html
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# short code is messing up html

 *  Resolved [udik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/udik/)
 * (@udik)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-code-is-messing-up-html/)
 * this is the text I put in the editor :
    [description]Taking great care of your
   skin[/description]
 * [info_box_area columns_count=”2″]
 * [info_box title=”Simple design” type_column=”alpha”]Content for first column[/
   info_box]
    [info_box title=”Simple design” type_column=”alpha”]Content for the
   second column[/info_box] [/info_box_area]
 * this is the html that comes out in the text version :
    `<span>[<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
   id="bd6adab9-5952-4bfd-9ce9-d02c89476283">description</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
   id="9dc2fe81-963f-4dba-9e10-a1c00eea423d">]</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
   id="a1aa559f-f678-430c-a023-521de959cd71"></span>Taking great care of your skin
   </span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="bc9ad942-f3bd-42fb-84c8-6115cf91db6d"
   ><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="0df2ebd5-e711-464f-b24c-80d7be4bc901"
   ><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="4c9a6845-5e0d-4a42-bdfa-19a905047f43"
   >[</span>/description]</span></span>`
 * `[info_box_area columns_count="2"]`
    <div>`<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
   id="fa2ac19f-b4bc-4912-8ef2-dfc06c94f598"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" 
   id="0ad6db1b-290a-49dc-ba9b-6400dba7a8c0">[info_box title="Simple design" type_column
   ="alpha"<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="623cbcef-757a-4d9d-86be-a014e57c5656"
   ><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="7d11f139-3cd4-4a90-991b-b62ec079abda"
   >]</span></span></span></span>Content for first column<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
   id="28d6110e-708a-455c-9fbc-8b15ce5ed1eb"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
   id="79a2ede4-e938-42de-ada3-40908230cfce"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" 
   id="77591fab-02f0-4ddc-a5ef-d1eac62cf857"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" 
   id="dcf4f751-6b18-4945-b0f2-b15e916c9edb">[</span></span>/info_box]</span>`</
   div> <div>`<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="12cbdca8-8366-4ff8-a266-10aff714cabc"
   ><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="699051de-8aed-4585-aaa4-b337816041d8"
   >[info_box title="Simple design" type_column="alpha"<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark"
   id="9e281fe7-9de7-4454-b166-7d97b2c96c6a">]</span></span></span>Content for the
   second column<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="1992ce8e-77e9-4dcf-81c6-7a877d474508"
   ></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="9d36aae1-11e4-45aa-bdf7-1f145374fbf3"
   ><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" id="1495cd92-96d9-464a-bfbc-c13d9ccafa73"
   >[</span>/info_box]</span>`</div> <div>`[/info_box_area]`</div>
 * some of the span tags are rendered inside the short code brackets and the results
   is that on the web site it is rendered as text like : [description]Taking great
   care of your skin[/description].
    If i manualy move the span tags from within
   the brackets of the short code it works as expected but it is manual and not 
   viable because every change I make I need to go back to text and look for the
   mistakes… Please advise. Thank you
 * I did not include a link to my site because it is offline while the errors are
   not fixed…
    Thanks

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 *  Theme Author [Fruitful Code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfulcode/)
 * (@fruitfulcode)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-code-is-messing-up-html/#post-4394099)
 * Can you try to insert shortcodes in text editor instead of visual?
 *  Theme Author [Fruitful Code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfulcode/)
 * (@fruitfulcode)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-code-is-messing-up-html/#post-4394354)
 * Closed

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