Title: the_content problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# the_content problems

 *  [Anthony D'Arco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adarco/)
 * (@adarco)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_content-problems/)
 * I am trying to figure out why this code doesn’t work:
    `<h4><a class="info" href
   ="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> <span><?php the_content();?
   ></span></a></h4>`
 * I am assuming that it has to do with how the_content parses (but we all know 
   what assuming does). I have tried a whole bunch of different work-arounds, but
   to no avail. it always seems to render the content like this:
    `<h4><a class="
   info" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> </a><span></span
   ><?php the_content(); ?></h4>`
 * Also, I know it is a problem with the_content, because if I replace the_content
   with “Sample Content to Make Sure This Works,” it works just as I would expect
   where both the anchor and span tag wrap around both the_title and the_content.
 * I just want to get the content to appear within the span tags on one page, and
   hoping someone could shed some light on the subject.
 * Thank you,
    Anthony

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_content-problems/#post-1903761)
 * if your content is very simple text, you could try:
 * `<?php echo get_the_content(); ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [Anthony D'Arco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adarco/)
 * (@adarco)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_content-problems/#post-1903770)
 * For some reason that still only put the first line of the text into the span 
   tags. Thank you for the effort though. I am going to keep trying, I will let 
   you know if I figure it out. In the meantime if you have any other ideas, I would
   be glad to give it a go.
 * Thank you,
    Anthony

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## Tags

 * [Content Wrapper](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/content-wrapper/)
 * [the_content](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/the_content/)

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 * Last reply from: [Anthony D'Arco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adarco/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_content-problems/#post-1903770)
 * Status: not resolved

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