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WhatCobblers
Seasoned Ace
5 months ago

Invalid HTML error when publishing new stories. Please help.

I am trying to post a story with images on one of my threads, but keep getting an error message come up saying: 'This content is not published. Invalid HTML. Please remove this before posting. Lib- sim.' (no idea what the last bit means). 

The story is pasted in plain text from a Word doc and have tried uploading each image via the option in the bottom bar (From Computer) instead of copying and pasting but it still won't let me publish the story. There is no HTML content used in the story, it's all from my computer, so am not sure why I keep getting a message about invalid HTML content.

I am wondering if it's the length that's causing issues, as when I do shorter posts with one or two images, it works perfectly fine.

I notice there doesn't seem to be a spoiler option on the bar for new posts/replies after the main introductory post so I can't get the long post into a spoiler.  

Has anyone else had the same issue when trying to post stories (can't find related topics in Search)? And if so, have you managed to solve it?

4 Replies

  • EA_David's avatar
    EA_David
    Icon for Community Admin rankCommunity Admin
    5 months ago

    Hey, there are a few things that could be happening here, but one thing that might help workaround it might be to paste as plain text. That is, when copying from word, press Ctrl+Shift+V, as this should strip out anything that's blocking the post. 

    That said, I certainly don't want to just leave it there I'd like to gather some more info, I've DMed you with some more detailed instructions for getting to the bottom of this, rather than just leaving it as a workaround. 

     

  • WhatCobblers's avatar
    WhatCobblers
    Seasoned Ace
    5 months ago

    Hi EA_David thank you for your message. I will have a go at what you sent me in the inbox message when I get chance. 

    Have already tried pasting in plain text but was still getting the same message. I also can't seem to find the spoiler option when posting replies to the main post. 

  • I'm getting this too but when replying to a post. It's coming up with 

    "Your reply contains an invalid HTML. Remove the following invalid tags: span (style)"

    I've got the same thing after trying to reply to 2 different posts.

  • EA_David's avatar
    EA_David
    Icon for Community Admin rankCommunity Admin
    29 days ago

    Hey, are you copying in content created  in another tool? 
    If so, are you using colored text? If so, can you try pasting over that/those section(s) as plain text?

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