Any blogger who recently have tried to add or edit a gadget (page element) which did not have a title for the gadget must have come across this problem - the gadget cannot be saved without a title. Error message - "Required field must not be blank"
One way to solve the problem is of course to give them what they want - a title for the gadget. But then many don't want that, so how?
There is a simple solution, a trick if you may, to this problem. Put the HTML comment tag
<!-- -->
into the box (field) for the title. Such HTML comment tag will not be displayed in any browser.
Further, if you wish you can put some texts between the comment tag, it too will not be displayed
<!-- these text will not be displayed -->
Note: Had I typed in the comment tag exactly as you see it above, it would be invisible to you. You may be interested in how I got around it. Refer to How to display special characters or ways to display HTML tags in posts and comments
Additional note: For those not familiar with HTML comment tag and not confident about how the comment tag will appear after posting, you can try a test post or just copy-paste the following script:
<!-- this is a pair of HTML comment tag -->
into the post editor, Preview, and presto, the comments disappear!
thank you!!! this has been bothering me to no end
ReplyDeleteThis was very helpful. I would have never guessed that you could do this. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSmart. ;)
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ReplyDeletePeter (Blog*Star)
Blogger Tips and Tricks
Aw, great - very helpful!!
ReplyDeleteGenius! Thank you!
ReplyDeletenice, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Trying out bloggers new templates..and this was irritating me to no end! Your site came right up on google...great info!! Worked!
ReplyDeletethanks alot peter, i'm having a problem with header tags, i mean how to define h1,h2... for blogger blogs? plz help me.
ReplyDeleteI think the easiest would be to do the editing direct in the template by clicking the LAYOUT (now called DESIGN) then EDIT HTML then look for the following
ReplyDelete/* Headings
----------------------------------------------- */
h2 {
margin:1.5em 0 .75em;
font:$headerfont;
line-height: 1.4em;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
color:$sidebarcolor;
}
and edit or add whatever attributes you want. If you also want to control h1 h3 etc and you can't find it in the template you can always define your own like for example
h3 (
font-family:arial;
font-size:130%;
)
Preview and if satisfied, save.
God bless you my dear! thank you very much !
ReplyDeleteApologies, those brackets ( ) should have been curly brackets { }
ReplyDeleteI tried <'b'><'/b'> and it worked for me! (Minus single quote markd of course.)
ReplyDeleteThank you for this valuble information. we had occuered the problem in our flash message area under the menu. There was no need of a heading. so, i put a full stop at there even it was unfair.
ReplyDeleteNow i solved the problem after read ur post.
Thank you
Hari
Admin
www.mathsblog.in
Thanks Peter for the tips. You have ease my pain. Recently I tried to save the widget without title and it give me the error message (>_<) Now I knew how to overcome this problem. Once again Thanks Peter for sharing it with us.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I have been editing the template to hide titles. This will make it much easier.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip. Sometimes Google change things for the better and at other times it becomes an annoyance. This tip should help me to avoid putting a title for the widget.
ReplyDeleteEarlier I could leave it blank, but when blogger changed the feature, I resort to using period (.) which was still noticeable.
Well at least now I can show nothing!
Thank you, Peter. You are the man! I can't get enough of your tips!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thebrosource.com
It no more happens.It was doing that stupid thing for 1 month or so but now it no longer does that.But thanks for the tip! If that stupid thing tries to happen again then I will use this tip.
ReplyDeleteHello Peter, you're a such a godsend. I have tried a couple of tips and tricks from this site and they all worked out just fine. This one, however, did not. I suppose my problem is a different thing altogether.
ReplyDeleteI am using a third party template for blogger, and it has a header widget for both title and image. I don't want to use the "text title" facility for the header because I am using a png image for the blog title instead. I tried the scripts you suggested but got error messages a number of times.
What do suggest I do?
Apologies, don't understand "has a header widget for both title and image"?
ReplyDeleteSorry for the confusion. It was not a widget I was referring to, but the page element "header."
ReplyDeleteNow page element, gadget and widget seemed to be used interchangably.
ReplyDeleteSo you are referring to page element title/header?
But below you again mention blog title?
What is the relationship between the 2?
Found the solution. Went to edit HTML, then I deleted an entire block of codes:
ReplyDeleteThanks for probing so you could help; I just got into this solution by accident (trial and error, delete and preview).
woah!! thanks for your tricks.. it help!
ReplyDeleteThanks For nice information about this. It's really help to me.
ReplyDeletegood post thanks
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