Title: Search should not read HTML code
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Search should not read HTML code

 *  [jugularbean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jugularbean/)
 * (@jugularbean)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-should-not-read-html-code/)
 * I’m not sure if this has been fixed in 2.1 but in my older install the wordpress
   search feature reads markup as well. I don’t think it should do that.
 * For example I search for ‘apple’, but the page doesn’t show up cause the HTML
   is ‘a_pple’_

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 *  [drmike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmike/)
 * (@drmike)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-should-not-read-html-code/#post-551569)
 * Did you submit a ticket to [trac](http://trac.wordpress.org)?
 * > I don’t think it should do that.
 * be sure to explain why you feel that way because chances are someone’s going 
   to disagree with you.

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