okay sorry, there is the code I am using
<a href="https://tinyurl.com/yyq8kk5l"target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.afitday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/miym-sm-square-1.jpg" <="Bob Proctor, Sandy Gallagher, Mary Morrissey, Magic In Your Mind Program" … />
I don’t know what you mean by 1. Select the code and mark it as code. (enclose in backticks)
I did make the change suggested in line two but I still receive the same error, “special characters must be escaped”
Also the code I originally posted in the post doesn’t look the same as what is above in this moment. This is the code I am having the issue with.
************<a> <img src="http://www.afitday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/miym-sm-square-1.jpg" />**************