HTML not translating

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  amoviegoer · Member · Apr 13, 2007 at 8:58 pm

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  I have just started up a blog here (moviegoings.wordpress.com) and I imported several dozen posts from my movable type blog. I frequently use the < i > < / i > tag to italicize movie titles, but when these entries were imported they show up in the code on WordPress like this:

  <i>The Elephant Man</i>

  Instead of like this:

  <i>The Elephant Man</i>

  And, of course, on the page itself it looks awful. Is there an easy way to fix this without retyping every tag in every entry?

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  amoviegoer · Member · Apr 13, 2007 at 9:00 pm

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  Hmmm . . . hopefully what I mean is clear, even though it translated oddly in the post. What I WANT to see is “The Elephant Man” (italicized). What I ACTUALLY see is “<i>The Elephant Man</i>”

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  drmike · Member · Apr 13, 2007 at 9:09 pm

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  You’re stuck with retyping I’m afraid. Either that or get staff to empty out the blog and try a reimport.

  Take a look at the Movable Type backup file that you have. The tags didn’t get encoded somehow, did they? They would look something like this without the spaces:

  & l t ; i & g t ;

  If so, best bet would be to get staff to empty out your blog, do a search and replace for the i tag with a fix and reimport.

  Also note that the i tag has been discouraged for use in HTML 4.01. You’re supposed to use the em tag now.

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  amoviegoer · Member · Apr 13, 2007 at 9:10 pm

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  Okay, that gives me something to work with. Thanks much for the help.