Field that has HTML displays the code instead of the text in html

It sounds like you are escaping the HTML before you send it to the browser.  How are you emitting that text onto the browser?

I am using a stored procedure. Attached is the code for that page.  

This is the portion of the SP that selects the notes that are displayed:

  STUFF( (SELECT Comments + ' | ' 
                             FROM casecomments b
                              WHERE  b.caseid = a.id
                             ORDER BY lastupdate
                             FOR XML PATH('')) , 
                            1, 0, '') AS casenotes,

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code.txt

Try:

Response.Write "Hello I am <strong> Joe Doe</strong>"

That should output the bold in that string

In XML the less than, greater than, and ampersand characters have "special meaning", so they would need to be escaped if you wanted them as part of the data.  Your query has a "FOR XML" clause, so most likely  it is escaping the less and greater than symbols contained in the Comments field.

Try changing:

<%=(report_results.Fields.Item("casenotes").Value)%>

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to:

<%= Replace(Replace(Replace(report_results.Fields.Item("casenotes").Value, "&lt;","<"),"gt;",">"),"<script","") %>

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I got this error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a005e'

Invalid use of Null: 'Replace'

/bluedot/Intranet/reports/rp_all_01_results.asp, line 408

Julian,

How do I apply that function and I got this error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a005e'

Invalid use of Null: 'Replace'

/bluedot/includes/bdot/scripts.asp, line 428 

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This is on the script's first line.  Some of the fields are null some have data.

I am trying to display the content with:

<%=HTMLDecode(report_results.Fields.Item("casenotes").Value)%>

sorry my last answer was incomplete, try this if only your code isn't encoded when you save it.

Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode( "Hello I am <strong> Joe Doe</strong>" )

If the data IS encoded, you'll have to manually decode it using the clean function I gave you awhile back

Big Monty:  I tried using the code we have to 'clean' (using in the other post) but the text still looks the same:


G-28, I-129 emailed to amucino'23@demo.com as PDF by Attorney Name. | &lt;p&gt;tseefe&lt;/p&gt; | &lt;p&gt;Please make sure you add comments to this case visible to both&lt;/p&gt; | &lt;p&gt;Add comments to this case here one visible indv not and low&lt;/p&gt; | &lt;p&gt;test&lt;/p&gt; | &lt;p&gt;test 2&lt;/p&gt; |

If the field contains nulls, then use:

<%
If NOT IsNull(report_results.Fields.Item("casenotes").Value) Then
Response.Write( Replace(Replace(Replace(report_results.Fields.Item("casenotes").Value, "&lt;","<"),"gt;",">"),"<script","") )
End If
%>

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Tried the above and still got error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a005e'

Invalid use of Null: 'Replace'

/bluedot/Intranet/reports/rp_all_01_results.asp, line 411

I also tried:

If NOT IsNull(report_results.Fields.Item("casenotes").Value) Then
HTMLDecode(report_results.Fields.Item("casenotes").Value)

and got the same above error.

PERFECT !  That addition worked. Thank you everyone!  I will go ahead and share the points I hope thats ok with everyone.

Thank you !

How are you trying to apply it - what does your code look like?
You can see the code above working here

You are welcome.