Unknown HTML?

So I built my 1st mission and I can't test it because I get a message saying "Name" has unknown HTML? What is that and how do I fix it?

Adding on to that, make sure there isn't a space or carriage return/Enter in your tag.

Yeah, look for HTML tags in the field. If you click the error message, it will highlight the field that has the error in it -- if you see any broken HTML in there, fix it and the error should go away.

If that doesn't solve it, this error can show up when editing custom critter descriptions, or when you cut and paste long text into a text field from an external source. Sometimes it is possible that you don't actually see the erroneous hypertext tag in the text field -- in that case you need to copy the visible text from the field (select all, control-c), paste it into an external program like notepad, ensure that the notepad version has no broken tags, copy the fixed version back from notepad, then clear out all text in the offending field and paste the fixed text back into it (ctrl-v). If you don't mind losing the text, you can just delete everything in the field without all the copy-paste hassle.

The surefire way to fix it (more effort, though) is to edit the offending file with a text editor manually and make sure that the text field in question has correct HTML tagging.

(Semi-related, but the MA text editor has an annoying tendency to fill up your text with invisible non-breaking space   characters in place of normal spaces, especially if you edit previously-written text; sometimes when writing a description your cursor disappears randomly as well. I'm getting closer and closer to just coding an offline MArc editor one of these days... :P)


-- Z.

Actually there is an offline editor, but it hasn't been updated (that I know of) since i14. It's still operable for the very, extremely basic elements of drafting an AE Arc, but not much more. I used to use it at work until the IT guys locked all our machines from recognizing the USB ports.