No longer support HTML in fields? Code is showing mistakenly

In order to use HTML in a text area, you have to designate it as a “rich text” form element. This won’t just fix it, though, because what’s happened is the field was saved in an encoded form.

After you change the field to “rich text” you’ll need to go into each one that is still displaying the tags and fix it:

• open the record for editing
• Select the “visual” tab in the rich text field. You’ll see the HTML tags.
• Select all and copy (or cut).
• Click the “text” tab and paste it in, replacing what was there before.
• Click on the “visual” tab again, and the HTML will be displaying properly.

I’m sorry about this…I had to change the “rules” when I brought in the rich text element…there was a security risk.

In the future, if you have data that is already in HTML form, you need to paste it in while in “text” mode in the rich text editor. If it’s plain text, you have to have it set to “visual” when you paste it in.