WordPress Excerpts losing css styling. Please help…

[Historical Forums User]

Hi all,

This is a WordPress/CSS issue.

I am pulling in excerpts of posts to my homepage. However, the CSS class names that I gave to these aren’t being picked up. What is strange is that the_excerpt for example is adding its own

tags within mine. So my code (as follows) is:

Posted by HCC on  in Courses




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 ">Read more.

But the output I get is this (from Firebug):

Posted by

HCC

on June 28, 2011 in

Courses





Dynamic Post Inside WordPress





Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident


Read more.

…so the actual excerpt is not going inside my

tag witht he defined class, but within it’s own

tag.

Please help. I’m hoping that I am just missing something obvious?

Thanks,

Ab

[OniLinkCR]

I have to ask. Where are you putting this code? Within the actual excerpt?

[Historical Forums User]

Thanks for response.

The code you are seeing (first section) is the actual code typed into index.php

The second set of code is what you see in view source when the page is rendered.

Hope you can help,

Ab

[Historical Forums User]

Okay, I’m guessing I need to change the containing element from a p to a div, keep the same class name. That seems to solve my problems. Am I right, or have I just hacked my way out?

[TheDoc]

Nope, that’s exactly right.

[Historical Forums User]

Phew, thank you!

[Author]

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