# 5.1 has issue when using \<a\> tag

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/5-1-has-issue-when-using-a-tag/2641>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [January 26, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/5-1-has-issue-when-using-a-tag/2641 "2019-01-26T16:03:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/marf/32/1799_2.png) [@Marf](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Marf)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/5-1-has-issue-when-using-a-tag/2641/8 "2019-01-27T18:11:26Z")

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@randyrie You are not the only one that experience the problem with the **“sticky”** error message(s).  
See this topic from @steveshead.

> [@Error message remains on screen when editing](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/error-message-remains-on-screen-when-editing/2647):
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> Since the latest update I have an ‘error’ message that won’t go away. If I edit an HTML element in the page panel tree, and I don’t escape a character correctly, the error message ‘special characters must be escaped’ appears - this is good - but when I correct the error, the error message remains and tracks the mouse around the screen. The only way to get rid of it is to restart Pinegrow. Below is a screen capture of the message.

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> [@Marf](#):
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> About the issues you experience with “duplication”, maybe you activate by accident the “Repeater” option, without knowing it. See this docs page **“Section 4 - The Repeater”** for more info about this feature:

> [@randyrie](#):
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> I never touched the repeater… the app does the repeating on its own.

> [@randyrie](#):
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> but the repeating issue did happen occasionally

> [@Marf](#):
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> That’s the beauty of “by accident”, you are **NOT** aware why it happened!  
> It still could be caused by the “Repeater” feature.

> [@randyrie](#):
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> Not sure what you mean here, @Marf ??

My english is pretty good (I think), but not my native language. So sometimes I maybe produce a weird sentence or use the wrong words in a context. Don’t know if thats the case why you did not understand “that part” of my previous post.

What I tried to say is:  
You seems convinced that the duplicate code is not produced by the “Repeater” feature, which I can understand. But when you typed/touched “by accident” a numerical value (which can happen) before you did those actions (without knowing it, so you are not aware you did that and activated the repeater feature this way by accident). Then you got suprised with those duplicate code/elements in your page.

Of course I don’t know what happened, and I also don’t know if you triggered the “Repeater”. I only tried to explain what it may have caused, because duplicate code / duplicate elements don’t happen just like that. And the “Repeater” feature exists in Pinegrow and I think is the most logical explanation what might happened.

Hopefully this makes it a bit more clear for you!

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