Stored lead specific html in custom field not rendered properly

[Franky_Ruyssch2]

Hi,

I am trying to store lead specific html in a custom field. The html has been generated from excel, and gets imported by a .csv file.

When I try to load the content of that field by using a token in a guided landing page, the content of that field is rendered as if it was text and not html.

I have tried this with 2 types of fields : textarea and string, none of them seem to work.

When you inspect the content you see the following :

It seems that the content starts and end with double quotes.

When i try to edit this content in the inspector I get the following :

How can this be solved?

Thanks

[SanfordWhiteman]

Output the token inside an easily findable container, then read it out (using JS) and rewrite it as HTML.

It's not really "improper" to escape the special characters so the text remains text. It's one of the two options, and Marketo can't know which one you want. It's like textContent vs. innerHTML.

[Franky_Ruyssch2]

Thanks for your reply,

used your input to write a jquery solution:

hiddenFromMarketo = $.parseHTML($('#hiddenFromMarketo').text());
$('#displayFromMarketo').html( hiddenFromMarketo );

[SanfordWhiteman]

OK...  but that's slower and has unnecessary dependencies. This (like most things in 2019) is a job for vanilla JS like that in my blog post.

[Andrew_Holstei1]

Thanks Sanford Whiteman‌ your article was very helpful. Is there a way to do this for an email? Am new to JS so please excuse me if this is a rookie question!

[SanfordWhiteman]

Well, there's no JS in emails, period.

If you want to output HTML code (not HTML-encoded text) this sounds like my last blog post: https://nation.marketo.com/community/product_and_support/blog/2019/09/17/even-when-velocity-isn-t-do...