Title: Esc attribute
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Esc attribute

 *  [lberelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lberelson/)
 * (@lberelson)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/esc-attribute/)
 * Need php advice on using the escape attribute in the following link code for 
   a news template: [http://www.howlingwolfmedia.com/site3/news](http://www.howlingwolfmedia.com/site3/news).
   
   The titles are not following h3 styling
 *     ```
       <?php
        $posts=get_posts('category=14&post_type=post&showposts=20');
            if ($posts) {
                foreach($posts as $post) {
                setup_postdata($post);
               ?>
           <h3 ><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"  ><?php the_title(); ?></a> </h3>
   
           <p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:12px">
           <?php
           if ($post->post_excerpt) {
             echo  $post->post_excerpt;
           }
         }
       }
       ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/esc-attribute/#post-4507221)
 * Can you clarify what you mean by the “escape attribute”?
 *  Thread Starter [lberelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lberelson/)
 * (@lberelson)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/esc-attribute/#post-4507229)
 * I think the problem with the title not displaying is b/c i do not know how to
   employ this within the code… [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/esc_attr](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/esc_attr).
   Or it may be another syntax problem. I don’t know how to incorporate proper html
   markup inside php code; if that is in fact the issue. It could be css… here’s
   the markup for the links on h tags.
 *     ```
       h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
       	font-family: Verdana, Trebuchet, sans-serif;
       	margin: 3px 0 0 0;
       	padding: 3px 0 0 0;
       	}
   
       h1 {
       	font-size: 1.7em !important;
       	color: #1c94c4;
        	font-weight: bold;
       	}
   
       h1 a, h1 a:link, h1 a:visited, h1 a:hover, h1 a:active {
       	text-decoration: none;
       	}
   
       h2 {
       	font-size: 1.5em;
       	color: #dba303;  /*yelloworange*/
        	font-weight: bold;
       	}
   
       h2 a, h2 a:link, h2 a:visited, h2 a:hover, h2 a:active {
        	text-decoration: none;
       	}
   
       h3 {
       	font-size: 1.5em;
       	color: #90be4d;  /*green*/
        	font-weight: bold;
       	}
   
       h3 a, h3 a:link, h3 a:visited, h3 a:hover, h2 a:active {
        	text-decoration: none;
       	}
   
       h4 {
           font-size: 1.5em;
       	color: #db7d03;  /*orange*/
       	font-weight: bold;
       	}
   
       h4 a, h4 a:link, h4 a:visited, h4 a:hover, h4 a:active {
       	text-decoration: none;
       	}
       ```
   
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/esc-attribute/#post-4507232)
 * What exactly are you trying to insert into your Posts and/or Pages?
 *  [Lisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/berelsonhotmailcom/)
 * (@berelsonhotmailcom)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/esc-attribute/#post-4507243)
 * Just a standard news listing page of category id 14. i didn’t use custom post
   types.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/esc-attribute/#post-4507301)
 * looks like you have fixed the issue – there seems just a space character missing;
 * please post the current code if you like to have it corrected;
 * also review [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_title_attribute](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_title_attribute)
 *  [Lisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/berelsonhotmailcom/)
 * (@berelsonhotmailcom)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/esc-attribute/#post-4507361)
 * Not yet. It’s a styling issue; nothing to do with esc attr. I just replaced the
   link with a simple slug and it still doesn’t work. Additionally doesn’t work 
   in body copy either when h tags are linked so it’s nothing to do with the php
   code etc.
    p.s. I also took out the query_post filter and replaced with WP_query
   as query_post was not recommended by codex.
 * **code using a link slug**
 *     ```
       <?php
       // the query
       $newsquery = new WP_Query( 'category_name=news' ); ?>
   
       <?php if ( $newsquery->have_posts() ) : ?>
   
         <?php while ( $newsquery->have_posts() ) : $newsquery->the_post(); ?>
           <h2 class="news"><a href="#"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
           <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
         <?php endwhile; ?>
   
         <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
   
       <?php else:  ?>
         <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * I’ll close out ticket and futz with css more.

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