Title: Column Layout using Excerpt
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Column Layout using Excerpt

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 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-layout-using-excerpt/)
 * Hi,
    I’ve been looking at this tutorial [http://tutorials.mysitemyway.com/adding-column-layout-shortcodes-to-a-wordpress-theme/](http://tutorials.mysitemyway.com/adding-column-layout-shortcodes-to-a-wordpress-theme/)
   to find out how to add columns to my theme using a short code. The method used
   on that tutorial is relatively simple, and just adds <divs> around the block 
   of text with set percentage widths and a float.
 * This works fine for the single.php, but my index.php uses excerpts which doesn’t
   work. When I look at the source the code doesn’t show at all for the post content,
   it’s just empty. Is there a filter on the_excerpt() that catches divs and stops
   them being displayed? I’m at a loss here!
 * Thanks in advance for your help.

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 *  Thread Starter [CodeBotics](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codebotics/)
 * (@codebotics)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-layout-using-excerpt/#post-3029224)
 * Okay, I just saw this: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/stripping-out-html-from-ltphp-the_excerpt-help?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/stripping-out-html-from-ltphp-the_excerpt-help?replies=2),
   so yes the_excerpt does strip out html.
 * How can I fix this? Is it possible to stop it stripping out divs, and then add
   a closing </div> if it shortens the excerpt?
 * I think I can add the closing </div> by using this:
    `return '</div><p id="readmore"
   ><a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) .'">Read More</a></p>';` instead of this:`
   return '<p id="readmore"><a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) .'">Read More</
   a></p>';`
 * But I’m not sure how to stop div tags being stripped!

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