Forum OpenACS Q&A: Allowing HTML tags in form template elements?

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1: Allowing HTML tags in form template elements?
Posted by James Thornton on 11/17/02 02:02 AM
How do you permit users to use HTML tags when entering data in forms generated with template elements?
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2: Re: Allowing HTML tags in form template elements? (response to 1)
Posted by James Thornton on 11/18/02 07:19 PM
any ideas? When submitting a form with HTML tags it says "please back up and remove HTML tags". Thanks.
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3: Re: Allowing HTML tags in form template elements? (response to 2)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 11/18/02 07:29 PM
James,

did you remember to set the datatype of the form element to html?

/Bart

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4: Re: Allowing HTML tags in form template elements? (response to 1)
Posted by James Thornton on 11/18/02 07:44 PM
I tried that, but html isn't a valid datatype in my version -- is it supposed to be?
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5: Re: Allowing HTML tags in form template elements? (response to 4)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 11/18/02 08:03 PM
James,

you are right, html isn't a valid datatype. I more or less assumed there would be one. ;) Try 'text', the text datatype validates any input.

/Bart

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6: Re: Allowing HTML tags in form template elements? (response to 1)
Posted by James Thornton on 11/18/02 08:07 PM
Bart, I have been using the text datatype, and it isn't allowing the inclusion of HTML tags...
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7: Re: Allowing HTML tags in form template elements? (response to 6)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 11/18/02 08:12 PM
In that case James, the error is not in form element but elsewhere. Could you post your code?

/Bart

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8: Re: Allowing HTML tags in form template elements? (response to 1)
Posted by James Thornton on 11/18/02 08:45 PM
Bart -- you're right...the page is redirecting to "form 2" where it is setting the form 1 values with ad_page_contract, and ad_page_contract does not allow HTML tags by default. Thanks for your help.