Title: admin-ajax.php adding html tags to response Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # admin-ajax.php adding html tags to response * Resolved [goldkey266](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goldkey266/) * (@goldkey266) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-adding-to-response/) * I have a strange problem that I am trying to figure out for 3 days. I tried searching the forums, google and couldn’t find anything. * The file admin-ajax.php is returning responses with extra html, specifically the tags `` are wrapped around the response which is breaking the page. Those tags aren’t normally there with the response. * If you go to Posts and do a Quick Edit and Update on a post, check the response returned by admin-ajax.php using Firebug or Developer tools * The normal response should be wrapped with `.....` in my case it is wrapped with `.......` * I disabled all plugins, installed wordpress from scratch with no plugins using the default theme with no luck. This leads me to believe there is some wrong server configuration but I can not figure out 🙁 * H E L P !!!!! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Thread Starter [goldkey266](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goldkey266/) * (@goldkey266) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-adding-to-response/#post-4654470) * I am at a complete loss at this point, I tried doing the following and I get the same problem in all cases: * CentOS 6.5 Server running Apache and WordPress 3.8.1 (this is the original server)– Problem exists CentOS 5.10 default installation running Apache and WordPress 3.8.1 – Problem exists Ubuntu 12.04 LT LAMP default installation Worpdress 3.8.1– Problem exists Ubuntu 12.04 LT LAMP default installation Worpdress 3.6.1 – Problem exists * I tried multiple browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) – Still no luck! * Thread Starter [goldkey266](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goldkey266/) * (@goldkey266) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-adding-to-response/#post-4654472) * Problem solved!!!!!! * There was a setting on our Web Application Firewall that forced HTML rewrite that messed up the JSON return values Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘admin-ajax.php adding html tags to response’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [admin-ajax.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-ajax-php/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [goldkey266](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goldkey266/) * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-adding-to-response/#post-4654472) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics