Title: Why Does WP insert an extra span tag?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Why Does WP insert an extra span tag?

 *  Resolved [dorich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorich/)
 * (@dorich)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-does-wp-insert-an-extra-span-tag/)
 * Symptom: WP is adding a “span” tag to an anchor tag and I’m looking for the reasons:
 * In the WP editor I have the following html:
 *     ```
       <p id="targetText1">The ...... It’s the <a href="http://xxxxxxxxxxxx/glossary/free-cash-flow"  title="Glossary">Free Cash Flow</a> projections that form the <span class="s1">basis</span> of these high company valuations.</p>
       ```
   
 * However, the source code on the page shows the addition of a span tag inside 
   the anchor tag:
    `<a href="xxxxxxxxxxxxx/glossary/free-cash-flow" title="Glossary"
   ><span class="domtooltips" title="<div>lt;div id="sourceText1" class=""">Free
   Cash Flow</span></a>`
 * The paragraph in question is used by a jquery script. Clicking on the link produces
   a dialog box showing content from a post. This works as expected.
 * However, when you mouse over the link a box appears with text that is obviously
   taken from the title in the span tag that WP has added, thus:
    `lt;div id=`
 * The ‘id’ that has been inserted inside the additional span tag
    `id="sourceText1"`
   is coming from the post that appears in the dialog.
 * This suggests perhaps a jquery conflict.
 * I’ve deregistered both the core UI and the dialog elements thus:
 *     ```
       if ( !is_admin() ) {
       wp_deregister_script('jquery-ui-core','jquery-ui-dialog');
       }
       ```
   
 * I’d appreciate any pointers on what might be the cause of this problem and how
   I can prevent WP from inserting the additional span tag.
 * Thanks

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 * Last reply from: [dorich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dorich/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-does-wp-insert-an-extra-span-tag/)
 * Status: resolved

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