htmlText question

[Peter Haworth]

I really want things to display without the <, etc, just a straight
representation of the original html text

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> New stack, 1 fleld, in the msg box:
>
> set the text of word 1 of line 1 of fld 1 to "<b>"
> set the htmlText of word 2 to -1 of line 1 of fld 1 to "<b>This is bold
> text</b>"
> put the htmlText of fld 1 into msg
>
> The output I get is:
>
> <p><b><b> This is bold text</b></p>
>
> So you can either selectively set the text or the htmlText or you can use
> the &xx; codes and set just the htmlText.
>
> As always, a couple of ways to skin the cat.
>
> HTH
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm setting the htmltext of a field but sections of the text in it which
> > include html tags need to be displayed as regular text (including the
> html
> > tags) instead of formatted html.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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