Title: [Plugin: Section Widget] HTML being escaped
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Section Widget] HTML being escaped

 *  [airfoil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airfoil/)
 * (@airfoil)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-section-widget-html-being-escaped/)
 * Some of our users (not all) who are accessing the section widget via the admin,
   are having escape slashes added to any HTML they place into the editing window
   upon save. Firefox is showing the following error:
 *     ```
       The stylesheet http://mysite.com/wp-admin/widgets.php was not loaded because its MIME type, text/html, is not text/css.
       ```
   
 * I’ve seen references to this issue in other forums, though not specific to the
   section widget. No one has reported similar issues with other widgets, and some
   users with Firefox in different location are not having the problem.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [godfreykfc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/godfreykfc/)
 * (@godfreykfc)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-section-widget-html-being-escaped/#post-1341973)
 * Hi airfoil:
 * The FF error is likey caused by something else and it shouldn’t have anything
   to do with the other problem you are experiencing.
 * , etc.)
 * Godfrey
 *  Thread Starter [airfoil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airfoil/)
 * (@airfoil)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-section-widget-html-being-escaped/#post-1341980)
 * Thanks, Godfrey.
 * This situation is happening with site admin users, and has not been reported 
   with other elements. That said, the users in question are working from a location
   in another state, and I’m only going by reports and what I’ve seen when I log
   in and look at the widget after they attempt to add HTML into the section widget.
 * I’m not actually suspecting the widget/plugin itself, since I can’t replicate
   the problem from my end – just wondering if anyone had experienced anything similar
   and had any ideas about where to start looking.
 * Thank again – I appreciate your response.
 *  [FriendlyWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmcginnis/)
 * (@mmcginnis)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-section-widget-html-being-escaped/#post-1342013)
 * I’m seeing this too. In my case, I’m having any single-quote or double-quote 
   escaped, by an admin user running Firefox on a Mac. I’m running FF on a PC and
   it works fine; any idea why it would work on one and not the other?
 * This is the code pre- and post-escaping. I am using single quotes here but it
   has exactly the same behavior with double-quotes around the parameters, which
   I believe is the correct way to do it:
 *     ```
       PRE:
       [featuredRacker
       name='Joel Walker'
       title='Linux Specialist / Cyclist'
       linktext='View their Racker experience'
       link='/joel-walker/'
       image='/files/2010/02/img-racker1.jpg'
       ]
   
       POST:
       [featuredRacker
       name=\'Joel Walker\'
       title=\'Linux Specialist / Cyclist\'
       linktext=\'View their Racker experience\'
       link=\'/joel-walker/\'
       image=\'/files/2010/02/img-racker1.jpg\'
       ]
       ```
   

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [FriendlyWP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmcginnis/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-section-widget-html-being-escaped/#post-1342013)
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