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I am working on a CMS Made Simple site. From an action I assign a variable to smarty:

$smarty->assign('anekdot', $row['anekdot']);

Then in the template I have:

<h2>АНЕКДОТ</h2>
<hr class="separator"/>
<p id="anekdot-text">{$anekdot}</p>
...

The strange thing is that the variable is printed outside of the <p> tag: (I don't have reputation to post images, so here is external link) http://oi62.tinypic.com/29564ch.jpg

As you can see the <p> tag is empty!!! And the content of $anekdot is printed beneath. Please, help :) Thanks.