JenJen 
Wordpress nerds! I am trying to figure out how to edit bits in code on their editor, but when I replace my navigation that looks like this, with my own html it won't show up.
What is this code? Css? What the heck?
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I'm just a lil guy who wants to put this kind of navigation html into wordpress
<a href="artwork.html"><img src="images/menu/artwork.png"></a>
<a href="comics.html"><img src="images/menu/comics.png"></a>
daddy wordpress does not like.
eishiya@JenJen You could try to put the <img src="blah"> bit into the "label" value. If that doesn't work, you can set the images using CSS based on the IDs, you can put the images as backgrounds on the elements.
(If you end up using <img>, remember to add alt text. And if you use CSS, remember to add regular text-based labels, you can hide them wit CSS later. Can't rely on viewers to be able to see the images.)
@eishiya img into the label... gonna try that now and see what happens, thanks!
@eishiya tried that and no dice! Wordpresssssssss arerjgfggggggggg
@JenJen Dang. Does the stuff in that code at least correspond to what you see on your page, i.e. is it actually some sort of templating thing? If it is, you can try the other thing I suggested (putting the text label and URLs in there, and adding the artwork via CSS).
@eishiya Yeah it does show in the visual view what the code does, so I can play around and see what happens instantly which is cool at least! I'll have a poke around 
Richard@JenJen i think daddy wordpress wants absolute links
Marco 197@JenJen my question is WHY. There are so many way to do this except using menu tools!
thank you hivemind (especially @aadil) who pinpointed exactly what I needed to do!
Now we're getting somewhere with the shop part. Next thing to try to figure out is how to give it the same background as my main site. (And of course what kind of hand-made buttons I'm gonna have for the shop navigation)
Oh btw, my new and forever-shop IS open if you'd like anything!
💫 https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/shop/
I'm very aware that since I did the "bye wix" video and stopped marketing my old shop on there, everything *completely stagnated*, so I'm pushing to make my own website/shop as nice as possible as quickly as I can in between the Kickstarter and my regular work 
This is the "Artist quits Wix after using them for 3 years+" video I'm talking about btw:
Glitch@JenJen those are the specific sections you’re replacing, and what you’re replacing it with is also contained within <!— —> tags? (Those are two dashes, despite how they look.)
Zekovski 🧣@JenJen If I'm not mistaken, stuff between <!-- --> are comments. Which means they are ignored when displaying your HTML.
@Zekovski I've seen it multiple times, so unfortunately yes, people do that, and often 🤣 It's the simplest way to make sure you allow the full range of HTML outside the templated parts while still being relatively unlimited in the characters and keywords you can use within the template bits.
Of course, you'd think with a system like that, they'd accept arbitrary HTML outside the comment blocks :|
aadil@JenJen that is Gutenberg markup - a very specific flavor of html generated by the WordPress editor.
I recommend not using the code editor, because putting normal html there will not work. Instead, switch back to the visual editor, insert an html block and pasye your custom code in there.
I'm assuming you're editing the header specifically here, and not a page template.
@aadil Thank you!!