Description showing html tags

[loriann1100]

Hello
I am looking for help! When I post my description to my links I am seing html tags surrounding my text. I can't figure out why these are showing up or where to go to edit the template. Here is an example of what I am seeing, I put the tags that are appearing in red.

<p> <pre>Maintained by the CIA, this is a searchable world fact book. Search by country or location. Information includes: maps, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues</pre> </p>..

<p> <pre>A not for profit organization that provides antitrust resources: cases and issues in the news, statutes, legislation, court decisions, info about mergers as well as a database of searchable articles. </pre> <div><span><br /></span></div> </p>..

Here is a link to the actual page that this is coming from.
keycounsel.com/Business__Finance___Investment/
Any help would be greatly appreciated. This make the pages really hard to someone to read.
thanks,
Lori

[James]

in your link.tpl


find
|escape

remove it

[loriann1100]

Thanks, I found it and removed |escape. Should it repair all of the desriptions that I have already posted? It did not.

[James]

It should ...... did you make sure you removed them all?

[loriann1100]

That worked, Thanks! Now I see another issue!! My descriptions lost all formatting and are running across the page in one line. Where can I go to insert my description formatting. I want to use and Ariel font, size 3 or 12pt, left justified?

[loriann1100]

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Can you help me with another issue? Your last tip helped me remover the HTML tags in my descriptions but that seems to have caused another issue. My descriptions lost all formatting and are running across the page in one line. Where can I go to insert my description formatting. I hope I don't have to go in and format each description I have already entered! I want to use and Ariel font, size 3 or 12pt, left justified?
thanks!

[James]

look in the source code is there a <pre in it?

[loriann1100]

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I don't see a <pre anywhere. I looked in the link.tpl. Here is what I have:
{strip}
<table border="0" class="regular"><tr>
<td width="15%" align="center" style="padding:5px;"> <img style="border:1px solid #CCCCCC;" src="REMOVED LINK HERE}" align=absmiddle border="1" width="90" height="70" alt="{$link.TITLE}" />
<td valign="top">
<div>
<a id="id_{$link.ID}" href="{$link.URL|trim}" title="{$link.TITLE|trim}"
{* nofollow *}
{if $link.NOFOLLOW or ($link.RECPR_VALID eq 0 and ($smarty.const.RECPR_NOFOLLOW eq 2 or ($smarty.const.RECPR_NOFOLLOW eq 1 and $link.RECPR_REQUIRED eq 1)))} rel="nofollow"{/if}
{if $smarty.const.ENABLE_BLANK} target="_blank"{/if}>
{$link.TITLE|trim}</a>
</div>
<p class="r-url">{$link.URL|trim}</p>
<p>{$link.DESCRIPTION|trim}..&nbsp;
[<a style="font-weight:normal;" href="{if !$smarty.const.ENABLE_REWRITE}
{$smarty.const.DOC_ROOT}/detail.php?id={$link.ID}
{else}
{$smarty.const.DOC_ROOT}/detail/link-{$link.ID}.html{/if}" title="{l}Read more about{/l}: {$link.TITLE|trim}">{l}Read&nbsp;more{/l}
</a>]
</p>

{if !empty ($search) or !empty ($uid)}
<p>{l}Category{/l}: <a href="{$smarty.const.DOC_ROOT}/{$link.CATEGORY_URL|trim}" title="{$link.CATEGORY_TITLE|trim}">{$link.CATEGORY_TITLE|trim}</a></p>
{/if}

{* show page rank *}
<div>
{if $smarty.const.SHOW_PAGERANK}
{include file="pagerank.tpl" pr=$link.PAGERANK}
{/if}
</div><br />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
{/strip}

[James]

no source code of the page that has the problem ... :)