I'm trying to place a simple PayPal "Donate" button in a charity/non-profit web site. I'm currently using the PayPal feature that creates the button code for me (I'm not a dev). When I place their button code into the HTML Content control in MP, the link doesn't seem to do anything. Any secrets to getting this going?  I've read a little about setting up the commerce piece but that seems like overkill if I'm willing to have the page shoot over to PayPal's checkout app (preferably in a separate window but it's ok if it is in the same window).

TIA...

Darrin

Joe,

Bingo!!     Simple stuff...rookie mistake!

Thank you!!!!

Darrin

Hi Joe and Darrin.

I also ran into this problem a couple of days ago. I have to admit I am new at this. I found a number of solutions to this issue of getting the PayPal buy it now button to work in due to forms nested in a form. To help people in the future I will post the links here. One solution is a link to a page where a guy by the name of James Bryd has created a converter to convert the button is found here http://www.nerdymusings.com/LPMTool.asp?TOOL=PayPalConvert the code to create it is here http://www.nerdymusings.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=29 . I also found an interesting solution here by Jeremy Scheider to toggle the html form on and off http://jerschneid.blogspot.com/2007/03/hide-form-tag-but-leave-content.html . Lastely on codersbarn where I found reference Jeremy's page in the posts someone mention inserting a <form> </form> above the button code. Not sure why it worked but it did and so far no other issues to report. There were a lot of good ideas on dealing with this here http://www.codersbarn.com/post/Solution-to-ASPNET-Form---PayPal-Problem.aspx Sorry for the lengthy message. Hope this helps others in the future.

My 2 cents is it seems odd that PayPal has not provided this information to support their product.