Title: Properly inserting HTML objects in a Post Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Properly inserting HTML objects in a Post * [mattlawlis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattlawlis/) * (@mattlawlis) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/properly-inserting-html-objects-in-a-post/) * Hello, I’m trying to insert this code into one of my pages on my WordPress: * ` * I entered it in the HTML area on the Write page, and it came out like this: [http://www.betchslap.com/?page_id=28](http://www.betchslap.com/?page_id=28) * What can I do to make it work properly? Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [vavroom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vavroom/) * (@vavroom) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/properly-inserting-html-objects-in-a-post/#post-438762) * Don’t use the rich visual editor… * Thread Starter [mattlawlis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattlawlis/) * (@mattlawlis) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/properly-inserting-html-objects-in-a-post/#post-438764) * I tried not using it, still looks that way. * [vavroom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vavroom/) * (@vavroom) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/properly-inserting-html-objects-in-a-post/#post-438784) * Run your site through the validator, fix the validation errors (44 listed), and you’ll likely have solved your layout issue. * For instance, you have the `` tag in the middle of your page, unclosed ` ` tags, missing `
  • `, object IDs repeated, no alt attributes for the img tag, etc… * Thread Starter [mattlawlis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattlawlis/) * (@mattlawlis) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/properly-inserting-html-objects-in-a-post/#post-438787) * How do I run it through the validator? Oh, and my layout doesnt always look like that. Only on that page. * [vavroom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vavroom/) * (@vavroom) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/properly-inserting-html-objects-in-a-post/#post-438816) * [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/) instructions are pretty clear there. it’ll list errors, and explanations of said errors. * chances are the stuff you are inserting on that page is what is breaking validation in some way. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Properly inserting HTML objects in a Post’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [embed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/embed/) * [flash](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/flash/) * [html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html/) * [object](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/object/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [vavroom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vavroom/) * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/properly-inserting-html-objects-in-a-post/#post-438816) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics