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What is going on with Blogger?
Posted by SweetViolet • 2/23/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogger, html
For nearly five years I have written my blog (sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/ ) in Word, then copied and pasted it to the Blogger text window.
When I did that today, it would not publish my post.
Instead, I got this message: Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not allowed: < meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
WTF?
So I wrote a little post (no copy and paste) about it and it published fine, but when I went back to add the error message to the post, it wouldn't accept the change and gave me the same error.
What is going on here and how do I fix it??
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A lot of things have come gone wrong with my photo blog posts as well. This forum also crushed a lot. The threads also result in broken links... -
Hi, Violet-- You'll want to paste your content first into a simple text editor and make the text be "plain text" before pasting it into Blogger.
That works well for me. I've never had good luck pasting it right from Word into blogger. I hope this helps!-
I've been doing this for 5 years without incident...and I didn't touch the HTML. Where do I get a plain text editor?
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Usually one comes with your computer. I don't know what it's called on the PC but on the Mac, it's called TextEdit. Look maybe under your Applications section.
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Use NotePad. WordPad will just insert the same crap as Word does, but NotePad is a plain-text program that comes with Windows and doesn't mess around with formatting or curly quotes or any of that stuff - what you type is what you get. It's hard (for me) to compose in it because you only get a line break when you insert one, but it's fantastic for cleaning up the garbage that Word adds. -
Another option: have Word save your post as a plain 'text' file. No formatting at all (should be in the 'save as' options).
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I've not had this problem but keep getting errors when attempting to play around with the html.
I write all my posts on notepad first, in raw html.-
I don't do HTML, didn't touch the HTML, have no idea why it is doing this!
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I do the same (copy and paste from Word) and I haven't had any problems. I wish you the best of luck! -
Every now and again blogger gets a sick up it's rear end and won't accept your HTML or command or download etc...
If it keeps happening, I'd go to the blogger help forum or e mail them. But it was more likely than not a glitch.
By the way - good to see you SV : )-
Thanks, Anok. Have the adults reasserted control here? or are the mean girls still running things?
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Some boys and girls are gone and others appear to be on vacation. No divisive and vain fan club or popularity threads, no comments dripping with insinuations and innuendo, and no drama are expected, nor will they be tolerated. Good clean fun threads and blogging threads are expected from here on out - yay!
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You're welcome.
I would vote that the drama has calmed down, and it's safe to post again
Did you fix the problem with blogger yet? I know last week I had a problem where all of my posts just disappeared off the main page. I had to put up a test post and all of a sudden it was OK again.
Weird.
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hye..im not so sure what the error..hmm maybe you should clean all cookies,temp file folders..clear all then restart browser.. -
It is possible that in your content you have a "malformed" html tag.
Just make the experience with wordpress, you get an error too if you have such a "malformed" html tag in your articles. -
i've also noticed some issues with blogger's update thing. when i try to cut or paste something i typed in the entry form, it won't let me. i just work around it.
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RESOLVED!!
We had a robbery Valentine's evening (see my blog for details: sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/) and my laptop was one of the casualties. I am using one of Hubby's old laptops, which has Firefox for the main browser...I hate Firefox, but since I'll be getting another laptop when the insurance settles, I figured I'd tough it out rather than fiddle around with browsers.
Well, that is the only thing different...so I fired up IE7, launched the blog, copied and pasted the Word doc, and, voila! Published!
One more reason to hate Firefox...-
Wow, I wonder why a browser would affect it? Weird!
I love Firefox /pokes SV and runs
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You will love firefox. I have been using Opera, Safari, Chrome. I never use IE and i vote for Firefox. I dont know why you hate it. A majority of the net users use Firefox. I track my visitors in statcounter.com and my finding is that a majority of them use Firefox. Even in analytics i have found that a majority of my visitors use Firefox. Thanks
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I'm guessing that what has happened is that Blogger staff have upgraded the blogging software. Has anyone actually contact Blogger staff?
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That was my first thought, TT. But after wasting more than half an hour trying to find an email address for Blogger staff, I gave up and came here.
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I have been getting this error for the last three months or so but i have no problem in publishing. I think blogger is yet to be integrated with the xml features of the MS Word 2007. Earlier i was using Word 2003 and everything was fine. Now i am trying to post from Scribefire. It is a very good addon of firefox. I am exploring various options of the add on. Today i posted my first blog post from scribefire and it is working fine. But i am yet to be conversant with various options of the add on. Let's see when bloggers update and integrate with the feature of the Ms word 2007.
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I'm using Word 2003. As soon as I opened my blog in IE7, the copy and paste went smoothly, as usual.
Why do I hate Firefox? It is klugy...it takes three actions to accomplish what takes only one in IE. It regularly locked up my last computer. It is too complicated and not sufficiently intuitive. And now, it doesn't work with Blogger properly.
My husband says "give it a chance." I've been using it since Valentine's Day. I still don't like it and now the requirement to click all over the page half a dozen times in order to open and view a site is just getting downright irritating!!
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it might be worth taking a look at some free HTML tutorials. I know you said you don't do html but neither did I until I started my website and found this www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
It's just that I remember saying in the nineties that I'd never get a mobile phone and now I can't go anywhere without it; you have to move with the times!-
The w3schools site is a godsend for HTML and CSS idiots like me. If you want to do some tweaking, that's an excellent place to start.
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Some of us are interested in the mechanics of how a car works; some of us feel we should know how they work, whether we are interested or not. But most of us don't want to know anything more than how to turn it on, steer it, stop it, and where the petrol nozzle goes.
I just want to write...
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Hi, SV, nice to see you.
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Hi, Margo...nice to see you too.
If the brats have all gone home, I may come back, but right now my plate is kinda full...I blogged today for the first time in almost two weeks.
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