Title: span tag behavior
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# span tag behavior

 *  [bdamato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdamato/)
 * (@bdamato)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/span-tag-behavior/)
 * I’m seeing some weirdness when my post content has a <span> tag. The edit page
   is showing the contents of the span tag alongside the multiedit tabs (screenshot
   below).
 * This is the HTML in my page:
 *     ```
       1 STOP Lighting Coupons
   
       <span>all kinds of content goes here...</span>
   
       <img style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Smiley.svg/800px-Smiley.svg.png" width="100" />
       ```
   
 * Screenshot:
    [http://snag.gy/XpuMp.jpg](http://snag.gy/XpuMp.jpg)
 * Any clues what’s causing this and (more importantly) how to make it stop?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/pagely-multiedit/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pagely-multiedit/)

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 *  Thread Starter [bdamato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdamato/)
 * (@bdamato)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/span-tag-behavior/#post-4980102)
 * *bump*
 * Does anyone else see this behavior?
 *  [geoffdaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffdaw/)
 * (@geoffdaw)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/span-tag-behavior/#post-4980178)
 * Probably too late an answer to be useful but I did see this behavior when I was
   playing around with MultiEdit a couple of years back. I managed to fix it by 
   changing a line in multiedit.js (line 33 in the 0.9.8.3 version I was using) 
   from:
    `jQuery('#multiEditControl').append(jQuery('#multiEditHidden span'));`
   to: `jQuery('#multiEditControl').append(jQuery('#multiEditHidden span.multieditbutton'));`
 * I was going to check it out using the 0.9.8.4 version of the plugin but I can’t
   think how I got the span into the content as it seems to strip any changes made
   in the Text window.
 *  [geoffdaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffdaw/)
 * (@geoffdaw)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/span-tag-behavior/#post-4980179)
 * It is still a bug in 0.9.8.4 🙁
 *  [HudsonValleyWebDesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaycbrf/)
 * (@jaycbrf)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/span-tag-behavior/#post-4980185)
 * Time for a major update!

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