"" not displaying in blog although < and > seems right.

bitsphere · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 7:51 pm
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Hello,

When trying to write about the <embed /> tag, the word embed disappears in the preview of a new post. What can I do about it?

Cheers,
Christoph

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timethief · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 8:00 pm
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Is this the blog in question? http://bitsphere.wordpress.com
If so please read this section of the support documentation http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
What exactly are you trying to embed?
bitsphere · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 8:08 pm
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Hello Timethief,

Actually i am not trying to embed something, I try to write about embeding something elsewhere. And therefore I need to mention the embed tag. But something goes wrong in the post and here in the title too.
timethief · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 8:10 pm
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Have you been using this section of support documentation for posting source code?
bitsphere · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 8:10 pm
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the title should read <embed> … and then lt and gt.
bitsphere · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 8:18 pm
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I just tried the sourcecode tag and the i can see the line numbers, but it still fails add the embed tag.
timethief · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 8:26 pm
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I’m sorry but I cannot help. :( Hopefully another Volunteer or Staff will be able to.
bitsphere · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 8:32 pm
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Thank you anyway timethief. We will see.
timethief · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 8:33 pm
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I have flagged this thread for Staff attention.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 7, 2011 at 10:29 pm
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Can you add the code here that you’re trying to include (use the code button above), then link us to the post where you’re trying to add it?
bitsphere · Member · Dec 8, 2011 at 4:50 pm
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Hello macmanx,

First I like to mention the tag in plain text. The sentence is (from html editor):

The sounds are loaded with javascript which fills an empty tag with an <embed> tag when the mouse hovers over the link.

This results in the preview:

The sounds are loaded with javascript which fills an empty tag with an tag when the mouse hovers over the link.

(The tag shows up, the <embed&gt tag disappears)

After reloading the post. The <embed&gt is even no longer in the editor.

Then I have a codeline which reads:

document.getElementById("hiddenSoundContainer").innerHTML = "<embed src=""+ pathAndName+"" hidden="true" autostart="true" loop="false" />";

This seems to embed a void flash from anywhere after the equal sign.

The link to the draft is: http://bitsphere.wordpress.com/?p=321&preview=true
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 8, 2011 at 8:13 pm
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It seems to be complete as per your example above, but perhaps the forums are filtering that out too.

If so, please send us an email at support@wordpress.com with details.
panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 8, 2011 at 9:16 pm
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To display code in a post you should either use the sourcecode shortcode, as timethief already suggested, or convert the code so that the symbols are replaced by the HTML entities for those symbols. You can do that here:
http://www.plus2net.com/html_tutorial/tags-page.php
bitsphere · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 8:35 pm
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Dear macmanx,

I wrote a mail to your support address with the subject: embed tag, at macmanx.

Thank you!
bitsphere · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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@panaghiotisadam

I think I’m getting this right since the tag is working fine. It’s the embed tag which troubles me.
panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 9:54 pm
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If you use the HTML converter I suggested, you can then fool the editor by enclosing part of the word in a span tag, for instance:
embed

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