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Getting an error message when trying to leave a comment
I keep an error message when trying to post a reply: Content Not Published Your post contains invalid HTML. Remove the following invalid tags before publishing: a, a (data-airgap-id), li-user
The workaround is a real pain, but works consistently for me:
- edit your comment,
- unlink every link,
- save your unlinked comment,
- edit your comment,
- re-link all the former links, and
- save your comment.
Last time I looked, I could not the original report of this bug from around the launch of the new Community. Sadly, this penalises folks who put the effort into properly linking resources in their posts.
This happens to me constantly. Quite frustrating. Including on this comment, and in Microsoft Edge, and Vivaldi, and Google Chrome, oh the irony. Finally I got this to post after downloading and installing Firefox.
Content Not Published
Your post contains invalid HTML. Remove the following invalid tags before publishing:
p (empty)
Most of my posts include at least one hyperlink for reference, which I suppose exacerbates the problem, but clearly cannot be the only one since this comment has no hyperlinks.
I am very careful to click Ctrl+Shift+V to paste as plain text. Not only do I run into the issue when creating new posts, but sometimes I notice the hyperlink didn't add correctly on existing posts, and I run into the issue again when trying to edit the post to add the hyperlink. Sometimes I just give up and don't post at all, which is especially infuriating after I've already spent 20 minutes writing a thoughtful response.
My habit of correcting and clarifying my own posts is limited by this long-standing bug. If my post has more than three or four links and the correction or clarification isn't critical, then I won't bother due to the excessive effort needed to work around the bug.
