Special Characters in Table When Submitting Records on Text Area With Rich Text Editor

[princezuko]

I have a submission form that has a text area wherein the rich text editor is enabled. Whenever I submit records,there are some unnecessary special characters that are found on my table for this particular field which I don't remember entering. For example, if I enter the word "don't", it appears on the table as "don't".

Is there any way to avoid this?

[astroboy]

Hello princezuko,

If the rich text editor is enabled for your text area, the HTML editor is also enabled by default which means that it is auto-fixing the values that you enter. Luckily, I discovered a way to avoid the unnecessary special characters from being saved to your table. Here's how:

1. In your text area, click paste as plain text:

2. Enter the values that you would like to submit from the pop-up window:

3. Click 'OK' and the submitted record will be interpreted on the table as it is.

[PotatoMato]

Hi, just to update this post, you may also refer to this How-to article: https://howto.caspio.com/datapages/forms/form-element-types/#TextArea

 

-Potato