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I have added PayPal buttons on my website and some of them don't work at all.
On the homepage, I added the following Buy Now buttons, but you can't click on them. All I did was copy and paste the code into the HTML editor and add a <div> tag.
Homepage: https://www.thefrizzgirls.com/
Here's the code:
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="KLLAQYAYDB3UY">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="CXS8DPWRJU6P6">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
***The code was generated by PayPal. I only add a <div align="center"></div> to center the button.
On the shop page, I have one button that is not working – The Hair Journals. Every other button on that page works.
https://www.thefrizzgirls.com/shop
Here's the code:
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="8EBJXNY3K3V5N">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
***The rest of the button on the Shop page work fine.
I tried creating a new button from a button that was working, but once it's online, you can't click on it. It's like the code doesn't want to work and I don't understand why when I'm not even changing anything.

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Good day @ukpeanut,
Thank you for posting to the PayPal community.
I have tried to reproduce the issue via https://www.thefrizzgirls.com/shop and could able to process the PayPal payment checkout flow successfully through the button "The Hair Journals" without any issues.
I would suggest to please try process a test payment via card which is not linked to your PayPal account, since merchants can't process self payments.
Sincerely,
Chiranjeevi
PayPal/Braintree MTS
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I fixed the issue last night after doing an extensive Google search.
For those of you that are using PayPal buttons with a Google Site, when you import your text into the HTML editor, change the code from ="_top" to ="_blank" and the button will work.

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