Strong tags are created on the site on the call of few collections

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A developer is experiencing an issue where unwanted <strong> tags are being automatically generated in their custom Shopify theme. The problem occurs within a section that loops through and displays products from a featured collection.

Key Details:

  • The issue appears when rendering product titles and custom text fields (section.settings.custom_before_text and section.settings.custom_after_text)
  • The developer has attempted to remove the tags using Liquid filters: | replace: '**', '' applied to both product titles and custom text settings
  • The strong tags are appearing before the start of the product display section

Current Status:
The question remains unanswered with no resolution provided. The developer needs help identifying why these HTML tags are being injected and how to properly prevent or remove them from the rendered output.

Summarized with AI on November 21. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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I’ve created my own theme in which one of my section is called and its showing strong tags ..

{% for product in collections[section.settings.featured_collection].products limit: 3 %}
          {% assign image = product.featured_media.preview_image %}

          
            {% if image != blank %}
              
            {% endif %}
            ## 
              {{ product.title  | replace: '**', '' | replace: '**', '' }}
            
            

              {{ product.compare_at_price | money_with_currency }}
              {{ product.price | money_with_currency }}
            

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        {% endfor %}

here my collection is called & 

  
          {{ section.settings.cus_before_text  | replace: '**', '' | replace: '**', '' }}
          
          {{ section.settings.cus_after_text  | replace: '**', '' | replace: '**', '' }}
        

      

here the tags of strong created before the start of this div