Title: Theme script is clearing text markup & other javascript. Help!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme script is clearing text markup & other javascript. Help!

 *  Resolved [cleverminx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cleverminx/)
 * (@cleverminx)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-script-is-clearing-text-markup-amp-other-javascript-help/)
 * I’m trying to figure out where in the code my theme keeps blocking my mark up.
   I can code <b>bold text like this</b> and unordered lists, but when I submit 
   the page, the text appears as normal. I’m familiar with code but I haven’t the
   first clue where to look for the script to change this. It’s also preventing 
   anything like lightbox, or shadowbox to work properly. Any help is greatly appreciate!

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-script-is-clearing-text-markup-amp-other-javascript-help/#post-1456517)
 * you don’t give many details as to where this happens.
 * assuming that this is on the front page, consider the possibility that your theme
   is using `the_excerpt()` to show the posts (part of the posts).
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
 * you may need to investigate a different way of showing your posts, probably using`
   the_content()` instead (in index.php(?))
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content)
 *  Thread Starter [cleverminx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cleverminx/)
 * (@cleverminx)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-script-is-clearing-text-markup-amp-other-javascript-help/#post-1456518)
 * I’ve mostly removed the tags in an attempted to just keep things orderly. Tags
   like <b> and <i> work. *sorry! but <del> does not. Nor do any of the lists ordered
   or unordered, I’ve thrown a quick sample of all this up on the most recent post(
   about umbrellas) [http://www.cleverminx.com](http://www.cleverminx.com)
 * I’m not to familiar with the excerpt or content, so if you or someone could basically
   show me what I need to change in it, that’d be fantastic. Thanks so much 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [cleverminx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cleverminx/)
 * (@cleverminx)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-script-is-clearing-text-markup-amp-other-javascript-help/#post-1456519)
 * also, like I mentioned before no lightbox or gallery plug-in works, so I’m not
   quite sure what to do there, I’ve created a myriad of other blogs and the UL 
   and galleries have all worked fine so I’m unsure whats going on here, if its 
   the theme or something else…
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-script-is-clearing-text-markup-amp-other-javascript-help/#post-1456530)
 * it’s even simpler – for whatever reason there is this line in **style.css **right
   at the beginning, suppressing a lot of styles:
 * `*{margin:0;padding:0;text-decoration:none;list-style:none; border:0; outline:
   none; }`
 * delete it and quite a few styles should be visible.
 * i don’t think though, that this will help with the lightbox.
 *  Thread Starter [cleverminx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cleverminx/)
 * (@cleverminx)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-script-is-clearing-text-markup-amp-other-javascript-help/#post-1456540)
 * excellent! I can’t believe I didn’t catch that! o.O
 * Right, now the lightbox issue. hopefully I can figure out a way around that.

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