Many of us insert PayPal buttons into our posts and pages (see this tutorial for those instructions: https://www.blogsbyheather.com/2009/01/adding-a-paypal-button-to-a-post.html ). However, sometimes visitors who click those buttons "may" receive an error page. Therefore, add this piece of code to the first line of HTML code used to insert the PayPal button.
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target=paypal>
This then forces the PayPal item for sale to be opened in a new internet/browser window and eliminates the possible error visitors may receive.
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HEY HEATHER!
THANKS FOR ALL THE HOW TO’S! i’M ACUTALLY GETTING SOMEWEHRE! HOWEVER, I AM GETTING AN ERROR WITH MY PAYPAL LINK AND TRIED YOUR TRICK ABOVE, BUT NOW IT SAYS.. Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not closed: FORM
WHEN I TRY TO POST. ANY SUGGESTIONS?
THANKS! KARI@RUBBERFORRANSOM.COM
nevermind heather! had a blonde moment… was only s’pose to insert the RED text 😉 i’m still getting an error message, but I think it’s a paypal error…
I know this is half a year late to answer the question above but to all who might also get the same error:
Look at your code if there is a closing tag for form tag. The closing tag has / before the word form. Hope that helps!
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