Title: Shortcode that generates HTML doesn't work in title
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Shortcode that generates HTML doesn't work in title

 *  Resolved [typhon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/typhon/)
 * (@typhon)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-that-generates-html-doesnt-work-in-title/)
 * Hi,
 * I used placeholders to make a title with a shortcode. It didn’t work as expected,
   since the title is not only used in the content of span.collapseomatic but also
   in it’s title attribute. This was my shortcode:
 * [expand title=’%{%ut_icon icon=”fa-at” size=”fa-2x” border=”none” align=”alignnone”
   color=”#26cefc” bgcolor=”#ffffff”%}% Email’ trigclass=”noarrow”]
    … [/expand]
 * [ut_icon] generates html that looks something like this: <span class=”…”><i>…
   </i></span>.
 * The outcome was messy and Firefox didn’t know what to make of it.
 * As a quick fix I commented out line 328 in collapse-o-matic.php:
    // $altatt 
   = ‘title=”‘.$title.'”‘;
 * This has the effect that there are no title attributes.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/jquery-collapse-o-matic/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jquery-collapse-o-matic/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Baden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baden03/)
 * (@baden03)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-that-generates-html-doesnt-work-in-title/#post-6683126)
 * Check out the [documentation on the Alt Attribute](http://plugins.twinpictures.de/plugins/collapse-o-matic/documentation/#alt-attribute)
 *  Thread Starter [typhon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/typhon/)
 * (@typhon)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-that-generates-html-doesnt-work-in-title/#post-6683134)
 * Sweet, thanks! That solves my problem.
 * I like this plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [Baden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baden03/)
 * (@baden03)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-that-generates-html-doesnt-work-in-title/#post-6683153)
 * Huzzah! Thanks for letting us know. If you are happy-and-you-know-it… please 
   [consider leaving a happy little review](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/jquery-collapse-o-matic)
   of the plugin or it’s support.

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## Tags

 * [alt attribute](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alt-attribute/)
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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Baden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baden03/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-that-generates-html-doesnt-work-in-title/#post-6683153)
 * Status: resolved