Title: Why span tag rendered as plain text
Last modified: January 8, 2025
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# Why span tag rendered as plain text
* Resolved [sam9023](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sam9023/)
* (@sam9023)
* [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-span-tag-rendered-as-plain-text/)
* Why span tag render as plain text. Please check the below image and guide me
how to fix it. Because of it my user experience is going bad
* [https://truereviews.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-8.png](https://truereviews.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-8.png)
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* Plugin Author [wpdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdreams/)
* (@wpdreams)
* [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-span-tag-rendered-as-plain-text/#post-18232127)
* Hi,
* The plugin does not change the titles, it requests them from WordPress via the
[get_the_title()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_title/)
function and prints it as-is.
* Do you use an [advanced title field](https://documentation.ajaxsearchlite.com/advanced-options/advanced-title-and-content-fields)
of some sort? Custom fields usually does not contain HTML tags, but often the
values are rendered within the theme via custom codes.
* All the best,
Ernest
* Thread Starter [sam9023](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sam9023/)
* (@sam9023)
* [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-span-tag-rendered-as-plain-text/#post-18235768)
* Hi Ernest,
I want to style rating using span tag it’s print span tag as plain
text but before a month it was working properly I style rating using span tagAdvance
Title: {title} {rating}but now it’s printing this
{rating} as plain text.Please, guide me how to style
ratingTHANKS.
* Plugin Author [wpdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdreams/)
* (@wpdreams)
* [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-span-tag-rendered-as-plain-text/#post-18236857)
* Thank you!
* I think I know what the issue is. In the most recent version there was a change
regarding attribute escaping in the titles, which is incorrect.
* I will mark this as a possible bug and change it in the upcoming release.
* To resolve this, you either have to temporarily downgrade to the previous version
or make a file change.
* If you want to make the file change, then open up `wp-content/plugins/ajax-search-
lite/includes/views/result.php` file on your server, then find this line:
* ```wp-block-code
title); ?>
```
* …and replace it with:
* ```wp-block-code
title; ?>
```
* And that will do the trick.
* All the best,
Ernest
- This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by [wpdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdreams/).
Reason: Wrong line
* [grahambayne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grahambayne/)
* (@grahambayne)
* [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-span-tag-rendered-as-plain-text/#post-18237534)
* Ernest, thank you very much for posting such a clear answer, I updated from Version
4.11.2 to Version 4.12.5 and then I had this problem.
* 
* I read this very post and edited the file as suggested and now I have this again
* 
* It is a great plugin, thank you.
* Graham
* Plugin Author [wpdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdreams/)
* (@wpdreams)
* [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-span-tag-rendered-as-plain-text/#post-18238391)
* Wonderful, then I will make sure to include this in the next release so you don’t
have to worry about it anymore.
* If you like the plugin feel free to rate it, it’s greatly appreciated 🙂
* I will mark this topic as resolved now.
* All the best,
Ernest
* [k3nsai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k3nsai/)
* (@k3nsai)
* [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-span-tag-rendered-as-plain-text/#post-18250466)
* Its safer to use
* ```wp-block-code
title); ?>
```
* which sanitizes content for allowed HTML tags for post content. More information
about it on [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post/)
* Plugin Author [wpdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdreams/)
* (@wpdreams)
* [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-span-tag-rendered-as-plain-text/#post-18252381)
* [@k3nsai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k3nsai/) Thank you very much, I
will test that, looks very promising.
* Expect a fix within a 2 days as soon as I’m back in office.
* Plugin Author [wpdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdreams/)
* (@wpdreams)
* [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-span-tag-rendered-as-plain-text/#post-18267498)
* Just released 4.12.6, it uses the wp_kses_post method now for added safety. Thanks
again for the suggestion [@k3nsai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k3nsai/)
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