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I have a channel that has a text area description field set to XHTML formatting.  When I include this field in the Tell-a-Friend form as part of the message, the user receives the email and it includes the

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tags that are in the description field as well.  They just show up right along with the message. 

There is probably some easy setting that I am missing to make sure these tags get turned off, but I just can’t find it. I’d like to keep the XHTML format on this field if I can.

Thanks for any help!

Hi oliversitedesign,

Could you share your tell-a-friend form so I can try to reproduce this on my end? Also, have you tried perhaps using an HTML-stripping add-on like TruncHTML?

Really sorry for the delayed response.

Here’s my tell-a-friend form.  In the docs it says if we leave the Message and To fields open for editing, we are inviting spammers—so I decided to make the message hidden.  It includes the {item_desc} field, which contains the item description.  This field is set to XHTML, but changing it to AutoBr didn’t help.  When the friend receives the email, the description contains <p> and <br> tags.

{exp:email:tell_a_friend charset="utf-8" allow_html="no" redirect="4" replyto="yes" return="{site_url}shop/product/{url_title}"}
                
<label for="from">Your Email: </label>

<input type="text" id="from" name="from" size="40" maxlength="35" value="{logged_in_email}" /></p>
        
<label for="name">Your Name: </label>

<input type="text" id="name" name="name" size="40" maxlength="35" value="{logged_in_screen_name}" /></p>
        
<label for="to">Your Friends Email: </label>

<input type="text" id="to" name="to" size="40" maxlength="35" /></p>
        
<label for="subject">Subject: </label>

<input type="text" id="subject" name="subject" size="40" value="Item for sale" /></p>
        
<label for="message">Your friend will receive a link to this item and a message about joining our site to be able to view it.</label>


<input type="hidden" id="message" name="message" rows="10" cols="40" value="Your friend {logged_in_screen_name} ({logged_in_email}) thought you would be interested to see this item for sale.  Check it out!  You can reply to your friend directly by replying to this message.
         
{title} - {if sale_price !=""}${sale_price}{if:else}${reg_price}{/if}
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{item_desc}

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Sincerely,
Your friends at {site_url}" />
        

{if captcha}
Please enter the word in the image below:
{captcha}
 <input type="text" name="captcha" value="" maxlength="20" /></p>
{/if} 
        
<input name="submit" type='submit' value='Send to a Friend' /></p>
{/exp:email:tell_a_friend}

TruncHTML seems like a great alternative to Character Limiter, which is something I’ve been looking for in another area of this site, so I will for sure use that elsewhere. But for this, I’m not sure it will work.  It’s more like I need an HTML stripper, which I can find as an add-on.  Just wanted to make sure there isn’t some setting in EE I’m missing.

Thank you!

Ah, ok. No, I don’t think it’s something you’re missing. EE is looking to send a plain-text email here, and if you include HTML in a plain-text email, it’ll just be sent exactly as it looks without rendering the HTML. Give an HTML stripping plugin a try here and let me know how it goes!

After much research I ended up using the Pitch No Code stripping plugin, which works great.  Looks like a lot of the HTML strippers have been abandoned or no longer available, but this one worked.

Thanks for your help!

Hey oliversitedesign,

I am glad that Kevin was able to help!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,