Title: Problem with embed code
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problem with embed code

 *  Resolved [Ramkalyan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramkalyan/)
 * (@ramkalyan)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-embed-code/)
 * Hello,
 * Last night I created a small Infographic and posted it to one of my posts.
    Then
   I tried to put an embed code so that people can easily copy it. However the double-
   quotes in the outcome seems to be different, which makes the embed code useless.
 * [http://beginwebsites.com/significance-of-seo-pyramid/](http://beginwebsites.com/significance-of-seo-pyramid/)
 * This is the code I used to generate the embed code.
 * `<textarea style="width: 600px; height: 120px; padding: 10px;" onclick="this.
   select();" cols="70" rows="5"><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://beginwebsites.
   com/significance-of-seo-pyramid/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-
   3375? title="The SEO Pyramid" alt="The SEO Pyramid" src="http://beginwebsites.
   com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-SEO-Pyramid.jpg" width="750? height="889? /
   ></a><small>Like this infographic? Get more <a title="SEO Basics: From Novice
   to Nerd" href="http://beginwebsites.com/seo-basics-from-novice-to-nerd/">SEO 
   tips</a> from <a title="BeginWebsites home" href="http://beginwebsites.com/">
   Begin Websites</a>.</small></p></textarea></p>`
 * Why is the double-quotes (“) displaying differently? Can you help?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-embed-code/#post-3310518)
 * Did you by any chance insert it using the visual view of the post editor instead
   of the text view? I got similar results using visual view, but it worked properly
   in text view.
 * The post editor does weird things to code, even in text view. Probably the best
   way to protect code from the editor is to pass the contents to a shortcode and
   let the shortcode output the code.
 * BTW, there’s some syntax errors at the size parameters for The-SEO-Pyramid.jpg
 *  Thread Starter [Ramkalyan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramkalyan/)
 * (@ramkalyan)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-embed-code/#post-3310530)
 * bcworkz, thank you for youe response.
 * Actually the code you see above is not the real code I used. Somehow I can’t 
   get it to display correctly on this forum. So I’ve put it on a PDF on google 
   docs for reference. Here’s the link,
 * [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9epGPvQw3l8SlMxT1NIa3E3U2c](https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9epGPvQw3l8SlMxT1NIa3E3U2c)
 * Did you notice a ” (yellow) character instead of ” (green) in the outcome. Why
   is this happening? How do I resolve it?
 *  [Rebecca O'Brien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjmastey/)
 * (@rjmastey)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-embed-code/#post-3310532)
 * As bcworkz asked, did you insert that textarea with the embed code using the 
   Visual or Text editor? When I took the code from your site and plopped it into
   Text, it added double quotes.
 * Two options
    A) The Visual editor is converting your double quotes B) Whatever
   you copy/pasted from was using “smart quotes” (Word is typically the culprit,
   but other programs do it, too)
 * Try writing out the embed code in Notepad, then copying it into your post from
   the Text editor.
 *  Thread Starter [Ramkalyan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramkalyan/)
 * (@ramkalyan)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-embed-code/#post-3310534)
 * Hello Rebecca
 * This is what I did;
 * I opened up a new post, and in the visual editor I inserted the infographic, 
   inserted the necessary texts and graphics and previewed it to make sure that 
   the outcome was what I wanted.
 * Then I switched to the text editor, copied the code, went to my usual HTML encoder(
   [http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/DotNet/Tools/HTMLEncode/Encode.aspx](http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/DotNet/Tools/HTMLEncode/Encode.aspx)),
   
   pasted the code in to it and got it HTML encoded.
 * Finally I copied the HTML encoded code, went to my post in concern and in the
   editor I clicked on the text tab (text editor), and pasted the code between <
   textarea style=”width: 600px; height: 120px; padding: 10px;” onclick=”this.select();”
   cols=”70″ rows=”5″>…</textarea>
 * Did I do something wrong here?
 *  [Rebecca O'Brien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjmastey/)
 * (@rjmastey)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-embed-code/#post-3310535)
 * I’m going to venture a guess that the HTML encoding portion was what did it. 
   I don’t know though.
 * I’d just copy the code <i>exactly</i> as it appears in your post (in the text
   editor) and place that within a textarea. Anything within a textarea will [should]
   be treated as plain text. See if that works, then go from there with customizing.
 *  Thread Starter [Ramkalyan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramkalyan/)
 * (@ramkalyan)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-embed-code/#post-3310536)
 * Wow Rebecca! That was excellent!
 * I pasted the exact code between textarea like you said and it solved my issue.
   Thank you very much. Really appreciate it.
 *  Thread Starter [Ramkalyan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramkalyan/)
 * (@ramkalyan)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-embed-code/#post-3310537)
 * And bcworkz, thank you very much for responding to my vague description of the
   problem.

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