Title: Code showing in Petition Message
Last modified: August 31, 2017

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# Code showing in Petition Message

 *  Resolved [JustDuckyDesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justduckydesigns/)
 * (@justduckydesigns)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-showing-in-petition-message/)
 * I’ve added text to the “Petition Message”, but in the display on the live site,
   I’m getting <br/> at the end of every paragraph. How do I remove this?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcode-showing-in-petition-message%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [JustDuckyDesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justduckydesigns/)
 * (@justduckydesigns)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-showing-in-petition-message/#post-9458554)
 * I’ve figured out the issue. If you select “Allow message to be edited”, then 
   you see these types of codes (and <p>, etc.). If I deselect that option, then
   it displays fine.
 *  Plugin Author [SpeakOut! Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123host/)
 * (@123host)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-showing-in-petition-message/#post-9465459)
 * I can’t reproduce this and haven’t heard of or seen it before and I have looked
   at plenty of petitions. I suspect that when you created the petition you copied
   and pasted it from somewhere else. This might cause it to have some embedded 
   HTML code.
 * My suggestion is to edit the petition, copy the text of your message and paste
   it into a text editor (Not microsoft word) that will strip any hidden formatting.
   Then copy it back to the petition.
 * Alternatively, since it isn’t very long you can type it straight into the message
   field from scratch.
 *  Plugin Author [SpeakOut! Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123host/)
 * (@123host)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-showing-in-petition-message/#post-9560690)
 * Nothing heard
 *  [mkj2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkj2/)
 * (@mkj2)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-showing-in-petition-message/#post-9995269)
 * Well, our message shows “[Your Signature]” which isn’t pretty at all. It shows
   only, if I DISABLE the message editing feature. If I enable it, it disappears.
   What’s going on here?

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 * Last reply from: [mkj2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkj2/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-showing-in-petition-message/#post-9995269)
 * Status: resolved