Great than character in theme template causing issues

[Alex-Hay]

Hi there,

A bit of an unusual one; i'm finding that using the greater than characters in quotes is removing the closing double quote (") and replacing it with a double prime character (″) – causing issues in the HTML.

.blade.php <div class="[&>*]:mb-0"></div> or <div class=">"></div>
becomes
.html <div class="[&>*]:mb-0″></div> or <div class=">″></div>

The below just causes an error.
.blade.php <div class='[&>*]:mb-0'></div> or <div class='>'></div>

This isn't the case for other template files outside of the ACF Composer template files. It only applies to views>blocks>**.blade.php

Thanks for your hard work on acf-composer!

[Log1x]

Interesting.

Does it happen if you set jsx to false?

The only thing I can think of is it being some sort of bug with how ACF parses InnerContent/jsx inside of the template.

[Alex-Hay]

Hi @Log1x, thanks for your quick response.

I tried it without jsx and the same bug occurred. I also setup a new install, adding a simple ACF block to the twentytwentythree theme and ran into the same bug – so it must be on ACF's end.

I'll submit an issue on the ACF repo, thanks for your help!

[orlockz]

I ran into the exact same problem a few days ago. I tried using ">" (larger than) in an inline javascript function. (Using alpinejs)
I couldn't understand why the closing " turned into ” on the element.

Thanks you guys. I thought I was the problem.. 😄

[Log1x]

AdvancedCustomFields/acf#822 here's Alex's issue 💪 . I'm curious about their response. I think I've accidentally ran into this before as well.

[SergiArias]

It's a coincidence that we posted almost at the same time haha...

A workaround is to use the html entity: > instead of >

[Alex-Hay]

I've just heard back from ACF on this. This seems to be an issue with wptexturize, and has popped up in a few issues:

WordPress/gutenberg/issues/15636
WordPress/gutenberg/pull/9963

It sounds like the ACF team are looking into a solution on there end (🤞), but it may only be resolvable in WP core.