Title: Adding a "[ ]" in HTML Mode Changes the Code
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding a "[ ]" in HTML Mode Changes the Code

 *  [ctrl-alt-rage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ctrl-alt-rage/)
 * (@ctrl-alt-rage)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-in-html-mode-changes-the-code/)
 * Hey guys, I’ve been trying to embed a youtube video by using:
 * `[embedplusvideo height="480" width="640" standard="theyoutubeURL" vars="ytid
   =183w1ZaaglU&width=640&height=480&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters
   =&notes=" id="ep4770" /]`
 * I am in HTML view but as soon as I publish it…it immediately changes it to:
 * `[<<<span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span>em></em>strong></strong>embedplusvideo
   height="480" width="640" standard="myyoutubeURL" vars="ytid=183w1ZaaglU&width
   =640&height=480&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=" id
   ="ep4770" /`]
 * This is driving me bonkers, please help!
 * Any suggestions?

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 *  Thread Starter [ctrl-alt-rage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ctrl-alt-rage/)
 * (@ctrl-alt-rage)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-in-html-mode-changes-the-code/#post-3062274)
 * Actually even I just put the youtube link like so:
 * `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thevideo`
 * It ends up changing it to:
 * `<<em>strong>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=183w1ZaaglU`
 * My other wordpress sites work fine. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong here.
 *  Thread Starter [ctrl-alt-rage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ctrl-alt-rage/)
 * (@ctrl-alt-rage)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-in-html-mode-changes-the-code/#post-3062286)
 * Shameless Bump.
 * I’ve also tried changing my theme to a default wordpress theme but no luck.
 * I’m almost getting ready to just delete it, reinstall wordpress and manually 
   add the posts again.

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