Annoying "set custom HTML" block appears on site?

[Norderstedt]

Hello!

I have a small problem and would be glad if someone could help me fix that.

On my homepage there's a small "Klicken Sie, um benutzerdefinierte HTML festzulegen" message (the German variant of "set custom HTML here") right at the bottom left corner of every single site.

Just look here: https://fussball-hamburg.weebly.com/

When I tried to add another HTML block to one of my pages I slipped with the mouse but the block was nowhere to be found so I simply thought I didn't actually add this block anyway, and then I added a new HTML block with the content I intended. After I published the homepage I saw this annoying useless HTML default text at the bottom of each and every site.

Apparently while the second HTML block worked just fine, the first one also got published. I tried to find this HTML block in my editor but it's nowhere to be found. Also, I checked the source code and it appears to me that this HTML block slipped outside of the actual content area (that you can edit on each site).

I hope someone can help me. I definitely don't know how to delete this thing...

Greetings

Patrick

Nobody knows an answer? I'm desperate right now.

[Bernadette3]

Hi @Norderstedt Thanks for reaching out. 

Do you still need help with this? I don't see the content you are describing. Can you post a screenshot if it is still on your end?

[Norderstedt]

Hello Bernadette!

Well, I do need help on this to some degree, yes.

I finally after hours of testing and googling found a pretty non-elegant solution to my problem.

You can still find the following text string in my code: <div id="489545371626175429" align="left" style="width: 100%; overflow-y: hidden;" class="wcustomhtml">Klicken Sie, um benutzerdefinierte HTML festzulegen</div>

I tried to simply disable everything with the id "489545371626175429" (which caused some problems because it seems like an id shouldn't start with a digit) and was able to make my problem invisible by adding the following code: #\34 89545371626175429 {display:none !important; visibility:hidden !important;}

Obviously that's not exactly proper css (I literally have something in my code that's been made invisible by something else in my code ) and it would be way more elegant to have the "Klicken Sie, um benutzerdefinierte HTML festzulegen" deleted in the first place...

I now deleted my "solution" code so you can take a look at it. At least I now know that there is a solution, even if it's not a perfect one, but it would be great if you'd know how to delete this default HTML text. 🙂

[Bernadette3]

Hmm.. occasionally a phantom object will end up in the footer. I can check to see if anything shows up. It's strange, though, because even if you had an empty Embed Code element hidden in the site, it shouldn't show the text that is displayed on the live site. 

What kind of edits did you make through the html/css area? 

[Norderstedt]

Hello!

I am really really sorry that I am only able to reply now. I was sick and then on vacation, and afterwards I simply forgot about this.

Anyways, about the HTML/CSS area...

As you can see on my homepage I predominantly added classes to the "main.less" style sheet, as I work with many football tables and table position colors. E. g. something like .abstieg {background-color:#ffdddd;} so that every relegating team designated with class="abstieg" has that background color. Pretty straightforward.

The only things I actually changed about the original "main.less" area is changing the colors and width of the navigation and the main area (so that the football tables have more space to fit the screen). As far as I remember I didn't change anything else (just for the record, I deleted some unneccessary parts at the bottom of main.less such as css regarding the Weebly shop as I definitely know I'll never sell anything on my homepage, but I double-checked everything before I deleted something, so that shouldn't have any influence on my problem) ...

Well, I'm almost certain the problem is in the editor itself, not in my css ... Imagine I add an Embed Code element to my site without adding actual code and immediately publish the site afterwards, that element would be visible on the site with the text string "Klicken Sie, um benutzerdefinierte HTML festzulegen", probably simply as a placeholder as I didn't write anything inside the Embed Code. If I now edit the code and re-publish the site this placeholder will be gone.

I guess, the same happened here, I wanted to add an Embed Code element, slipped with the mouse and as far as I can remember had the mouse on the far right side of the screen when I stopped pressing the left mouse button. It seems to me the Weebly editor still accepted the element but as I was so far off with the mouse it located it in a place not attainable in the editor. And as I never added actual code in the element, the custom "Klicken Sie, um benutzerdefinierte HTML festzulegen" is displayed on the site.