Help displaying text

Rails
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Apologies in advance …this may be a really dumb question but here
goes.

@formatted_question[:a] contains text with HTML markup. I want to
display it in a field so I can control its vertical and horizontal size
on the page. When it is displayed on the page now, rather than
interpreting the HTML, it is output into the text field as a string with
all HTML tags showing. What am I doing wrong??

<%= text_area_tag id="cka",(@formatted_question[:anno_a]) %>

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Dave C. [email protected]
wrote:

@formatted_question[:a] contains text with HTML markup. I want to
display it in a field so I can control its vertical and horizontal size
on the page. When it is displayed on the page now, rather than
interpreting the HTML, it is output into the text field as a string with
all HTML tags showing. What am I doing wrong??

Misusing a form element :slight_smile:

<%= text_area_tag id="cka",(@formatted_question[:anno_a]) %>

That’s the way a text area works; if you want to control display size,
use CSS to size the appropriate block-level container (e.g. div, p).

–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]

twitter: @hassan

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On Jan 27, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Hassan S. wrote:

<%= text_area_tag id="cka",(@formatted_question[:anno_a]) %>

That’s the way a text area works; if you want to control display size,
use CSS to size the appropriate block-level container (e.g. div, p).

–
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
Hassan Schroeder | about.me
twitter: @hassan

Also, you need to indicate that the contents should not be escaped, but
delivered as-is to the page:

<%=raw @formatted_question[:anno_a] %>

Note the ERB tag begins “<%=raw” That ‘raw’ is
raw (ActionView::Helpers::OutputSafetyHelper) - APIdock and
will send the actual contents, i.e., the HTML, to the page.

-Rob