PayPal Buttons not showing correctly once uploaded

**The Nikster** · 26 November 2010, 02:25 PM

Hello, yes its me again !! lol.

I have just completed a website and have added some PayPal add to cart buttons on some of the pages. However even though they appear just fine in DP6, when uploaded to the webspace they go all 'Weird'...out of shape with massive writing etc, and of course they are unusable.

This is the website http://www.extralube-zx1.com and the code given by paypal for one of the buttons was:

<form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="8F743BPJ3VMYN">
<table>
<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on0" value="ZX1 Micro Oil">ZX1 Micro Oil</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os0">
<option value="250ml">250ml £15.95</option>
<option value="1 litre">1 litre £50.95</option>
</select> </td></tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_cart_SM.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

Which in DP6 can be just pasted into the page.

If anyone can help i would be Muchly Obliged...

Many thanks as always

Nick

**The Nikster** · 26 November 2010, 02:47 PM

I found the answer.....

I am not sure why? but for some reason my <h1> header tag, which was nested in a placeholder, was interfering with the buttons?

As soon as i removed the placeholder containing the <h1> header tag....No more button problems.

For the life of me i cant find any rime or reason for this to happen, but as they say *?&t happens !!!!

i hope this will help someone else if they are having issues?

Nick

**BytheSea** · 18 August 2011, 03:05 PM

Nick,

This is the only entry about wrongly-sized PayPal buttons I coud find. I'm having the same problem with an outsize 'View Cart' button, and none of the HTML placeholder fixes recommended on other forums seem to work.

I'm not as well-versed as you in HTML coding, and would like to see if the fix you arrived at could work for me.

Could you explain how you 'opened up' WD to get to the code, and what I should look for - and take out?

Many Thanks,

Paul

**The Nikster** · 18 August 2011, 03:36 PM

Hi Paul,

Yes i had this problem on a number of webpages i had made.

Can you tell me, do you have any <h1> or similar tags in the <head> of your page or in placeholder in the <head> of your page?

I only ever had the problem when i had these tags in the <head> but not if they were in the <body>

Which version of Designer Pro or Web Designer are you using please?

Cheers

Nick