emoticons and widgets

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  bonobowoodfirepizza · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 7:47 pm

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  Hi I was wondering if widgets recognize emoticons in their text sections. I was trying to add a “heart” <3 in my “follow blog” widget, in both the description text and “button” text, but it wouldn’t work.

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  bonobowoodfirepizza · Member · Jan 10, 2015 at 7:48 pm

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  sorry, the blog I need help with is bonobopizza.wordpress.com

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Jan 11, 2015 at 7:34 pm

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  Howdy!

  Since widgets’ text fields can accept HTML code, it thinks your “<” is the start of an HTML tag, and is then scraping it out since it’s incomplete.

  If you’ll enter this into the widget instead:

  <3

  Once you save the widget, you’ll see “<3” saved.

  This works because it uses an HTML entity instead of the character “<“.

  If you run into any snags with other emoticons, check that link for a list of other HTML entities that might help out when special characters are involved.

  Your site is great, by the way! My wife and I love zoos and bonobos are always so much fun to watch.

  -Alex G.