Hi there

I'm trying to display the content of a mediumtext field in my database on the page. But my mediumtext field contains HTML markup, in this case <p> tags that I'm using to set my text into paragraphs. When I insert the databinding onto the page however, it is showing these <p> tags rather than interpreting them as paragraphs. How do I stop this happening?

thanks in advance
Bruce

Hello Bruce,
Are you using HTML5 Data Bindings to bind the data on your page, or a re you using the new App Connect?

Hi Teodor. I'm just following the method in the first video in the manual for this extension (Server Connect Action Executors). So I'm guessing it's HTML5 Data Bindings?

Well, do you bind the data from within the HTML5 Data Bindings Panel or from within the App Connect panel?

I haven't bought the App Connect extension. There's nothing called HTML5 Data Bindings. I'm just using the panel called Data Bindings, exatcly as is done in the manual video

App Connect is a free extension.
If your panel is called Data Bindings, then you are using HTML5 Data Bindings ....

In order to render HTML preformatted content on your page just do not bind the data as TEXT but instead select HTML, from the dropdown, on the bottom left side of the Data Bindings panel.

Thanks Teodor. That's fixed it.

Much appreciated

Bruce

Hi again. Given up on Server Connect as I can't get repeat areas to work since they're clashing with other javascript. I've switched to App Connect now and I'm having the same problem with HTML tags appearing on the page. Can you let me know how to fix this as well?

thanks

Hello,
You can do this in App Connect also, the same as in HTML5 Data Bindings.
Select the parent container tags, where you want to render the HTML content. Click Add Dynamic Attribute > Display > Inner HTML.

Thanks. That's worked great.

Going to switch to support for App Connector now as I've got a couple of other questions

I'm using app connect and when i set the div to inner html any special characters such as commas or apostrophes come out as stranger characters

Hello Rick,
If any special characters such as commas or apostrophes come out as stranger characters then there is some encoding issue either with your page encoding or in your database table encoding. Both must be utf-8.