Title: embeding flash objects causes nesting error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# embeding flash objects causes nesting error

 *  [hammonwry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hammonwry/)
 * (@hammonwry)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embeding-flash-objects-causes-nesting-error/)
 * Ok, so I have my own copy of SlideShowPro from Dominey Design, which I really
   love and I decide I wanted to update my blog and include some pictures in SSP.
   So I went through the whole thing and got it in place, but then in checking to
   see if it rendered out ok in Firefox I ran into a problem – WordPress is putting
   a `</p>` at the end of the first line of the object tag in the code. It looked
   like this:
 * `<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://
   fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
   width="425" height="310" id="hammonwry" ></p>
    <param name="allowScriptAccess"
   value="sameDomain" /> <param name="movie" value="hammonwry.swf" /> <param name
   ="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <embed src
   ="/photo_albums/hammonwry.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="425" height
   ="310" name="hammonwry" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-
   flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>
 * In case you’re like me and you missed it, it’s right before the first parameter
   is defined on it’s own. Super annoying.
 * It took me a good hour to get this, but once found, no biggie. I figured it was
   just a matter of not resetting the option for WP to close invalidly nested XHTML.
   But I looked, and that was not the case. Just for fun, I toggled, saved, toggled
   again and tried the page, but nope, not happening. So I hacked it.
 * Which I hate to do.
 * I had to add an opening paragraph tag to the end of the first line of the object
   tag. So the code now reads `<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
   codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#
   version=7,0,0,0" width="425" height="310" id="hammonwry" ><p>` in the input field,
   but if you check out the page, it’s even stranger. View the source [this page](http://hammonwry.com/photo_albums/)
   and you’ll notice that my `<p>` has now mysteriously become `<br />` as apparently
   in the WP math if you add `<p>` + `</p>` you get a line break. Who knew?
 * So, somewhere WP is doing some stuff that I’ve specifically asked it not to, 
   or perhaps this is a slightly different bug, or perhaps the code that I’m using
   for this flash object is somehow wrong. Either way, it’s all odd to me, how was
   it for you?

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embeding-flash-objects-causes-nesting-error/)
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