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posted by martyb on Thursday October 02 2014, @04:19PM   
from the need-to-escape-/tr-/td-/th-and-/div-elements-in-submission-titles dept.

martyb writes:

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submitted title contains </tr> right here:

Should be interesting to see how this appears in the submission and story queues.

Some crap below the fold

• this goes up and down (Score: 2) by martyb on Friday October 03 2014, @11:10AM

  by martyb (76) on Friday October 03 2014, @11:10AM (#28159) Journal

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