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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 20, 2007, 6:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288 "2007-06-20T06:53:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:**  [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 6:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288/1 "2007-06-20T06:53:28Z")
Hi, i have a text field in html format “It is a sunny
day.
Bye”
When i put in the rhtml
\<%= news.text\_field %\>
I get printed the text with the tags inside…
is there a to\_html or soemthing like that?
thanks
Christian
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**Author:**  [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 6:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288/2 "2007-06-20T06:58:28Z")
On 6/20/07, cfingerh [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Christian
You may need to provide some more information about what your trying to
do.
An HTML Text field, or textarea will not render as html. They only
contain
text. Perhaps something like tinyMCE or similar javascript powered rich
editor is what your after.
Daniel
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**Author:**  [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288/3 "2007-06-20T07:10:29Z")
I will try to explain it better…
It is not for editing or creating a text. I already have the text in
my table-database
I have
\<% for new in @news %\>
Title:
# \<%= new.title.to\_s %\>
\<%= new.title.text %\>
\<%end\>
And the text field has html tags inside (divs and spans)
The result is that the text printed is with the tags.For example
```
Title: New Member in the Society
The society wants to announce
```
that:
Mr etc, etc
Title: New Member in the Society
The society wants to announce
that:
Mr etc, etc
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**Author:**  [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288/4 "2007-06-20T07:31:31Z")
sorry…
\<%= new.text %\>
text is the name of the field
thanks
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**Author:**  [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 7:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288/5 "2007-06-20T07:29:30Z")
On 6/20/07, cfingerh [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> ```
> <%= new.title.text %>
> The society wants to announce
>
> ```
>
> that:
> Mr etc, etc
Where does the text method come from in this line?
\<%= new.title.text %\>
It seems that title is an attribute of the AR model, but there is no
text
method that I know of on String. What kind of object is it?
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**Author:**  [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 7:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288/6 "2007-06-20T07:39:34Z")
On 6/20/07, cfingerh [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> sorry…
>
> \<%= new.text %\>
>
> text is the name of the field
>
> thanks
Cool. That makes more sense to me.
There is nothing imediate that jumps to mind except that at some point
it
seems that the tags are being escaped.
If you select these directly from the database, or using the console.
Is
the markup like
The society wants to announce
that:
Mr etc, etc
Or is the tags escaped? Like
The society wants to \
that: \ Mr etc, etc
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**Author:**  [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 10:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288/7 "2007-06-20T10:22:48Z")
I get it printed like
The society wants to announce
that:
Mr etc, etc
but in the Page Source it is tags escaped …
The society wants to \
that: \ Mr etc, etc
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**Author:**  [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 11:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288/8 "2007-06-20T11:06:54Z")
I found the problem.
I had
\<%=h new.text %\>
not
\<%= new.text %\>
Anyway thank you very much Daniel
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**Author:**  [@cfingerh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cfingerh)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 10:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-format/107288/9 "2007-06-20T10:21:48Z")
In the screen I get it
The society wants to announce
that:
Mr etc, etc
The society wants to \
that: \ Mr etc, etc