Title: XHTML nesting bug
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# XHTML nesting bug

 *  [chvredansante](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chvredansante/)
 * (@chvredansante)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-nesting-bug/)
 * > The problem occurs when the “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML
   > automatically” option is enabled and ‘<‘ or ‘>’ are used as characters directly
   > in the text. They need to be escaped or replaced with [HTML [character] entites](http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp),‘&
   > lt;’ & ‘&gt;’ respectively. The bug may extend futher as well.
 * — [http://eternelle.nayh.ca/2006/01/18/wp-20-bug/](http://eternelle.nayh.ca/2006/01/18/wp-20-bug/)

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## Tags

 * [nesting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nesting/)
 * [xhtml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xhtml/)

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 * Last reply from: [chvredansante](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chvredansante/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-nesting-bug/)
 * Status: not resolved

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