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Perhaps I am missing it, but I can’t find any reference to working with text formatting within a SafeCracker form.

I have a working form, but the main content field of the entries are a textarea with XHTML formatting applied.

When I output the field like so (the simplest way):

<textarea name="article_content">{article_content}</textarea>

... the field’s content comes through with P tags intact. This means that when I save the article, the P tags are now in the entry data.

I tried a few permutations of tags I found in the documentation, without results. I tried using the custom_fields loop, but I guess I’m unclear as to how it works — it’s an all or nothing thing?

Hello Tim,

I am not sure how those tags are getting in there.

Can I see the whole form?

Can you show me a screenshot with an example of the behavior you are seeing?

Thank you,

Hi Shane,

Here’s the form in question:

{exp:channel:entries channel="columns" url_title="{segment_3}" limit="1" disable="categories|category_fields|member_data"}

{exp:safecracker channel="columns" return="/edit/column/{url_title}/submitted" include_jquery="no" safecracker_head="no" class="editForm" id="editForm{entry_id}" entry_id="{entry_id}"}
 
 <header data-title="title">
 
  <h1><input name="title" type="text" value="{title}"></h1>
  
  
   URL Title: <input name="url_title" type="text" value="{url_title}">
  

 </header>
 
 <hr>
 
 <section data-title="intro">
 
  <textarea name="column_intro">{column_intro}</textarea></p>

 </section>
 
 <hr>
 
 <section data-title="content">
 
  <textarea name="column_content">{column_content}</textarea></p>

 </section>
 
 <section class="matrix-holder" data-title="footnotes">
 
  {field:column_footnotes}

 </section>
 
 <section class="matrix-holder" data-title="translations">
 
  {field:column_translations}

 </section>
 
 <hr>
 
 <section data-title="author notes">
 
  <textarea name="column_notes">{column_notes}</textarea></p>

 </section>
 
 <input type="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
  
</div>

{jquery-and-scripts}

{safecracker_head}
 
{/exp:safecracker}

{/exp:channel:entries}

I’ve also attached a screenshot.

The “intro” field and the “content” field are the same type of custom field (just a plain textarea), but “intro” has text formatting set to None, and the “content” has formatting set to XHTML.

Hey Tim,

Is there a reason you are enclosing the safecracker form in a channel entries tag pair?

What version of ExpressionEngine are you currently running?

Cheers,

EE version: v2.5.2

I pared back my code sample, but I have the entries tag in there so I can do this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="columns" url_title="{segment_3}" limit="1" disable="categories|category_fields|member_data"}

{if group_id == "1" OR member_id == author_id}

Is there a better way to do that?

Hi Tim,

Yes there is! Give {if member_group == 'X'} a try. It’s a global variable so it operates outside of the channel entries tag.

And just in case we are on the trail of a bug, can you update to 2.5.3?

Thanks Tim!

Cheers,

Thanks, I’ve updated to 2.5.3 and I’m still seeing P tags.

W/r/t the member_group variable — that doesn’t seem to give me the “is this the entry author” logic I need.

Hi Tim,

Right, you can also use if member_id. If you take a look at the page I linked to above and here, there are several options to use to craft the logic you need.

Can you try that?

Does taking the SC form out of the Channel Entries loop get rid of the behavior for you?

Thank you,,

Removing the entries loop does in fact get rid of the P tags, thanks.

I’m sure I can figure out the other logic.

Thanks!

Hi Tim,

Sounds good! Glad you are able to move on. SC is particular about doing it’s own thing, does not like to be wrapped in a channel entries tag for sure.

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

Cheers,