# Rich text not interpreting html

**URL:** <https://community.forestadmin.com/t/rich-text-not-interpreting-html/4443>\
**Category:** Help me!\
**Tags:** howtos\
**Created:** [April 6, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/rich-text-not-interpreting-html/4443 "2022-04-06T09:31:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mathieuh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/mathieuh/32/953_2.png) [@mathieuh](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/mathieuh)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/rich-text-not-interpreting-html/4443/1 "2022-04-06T09:31:05Z")

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## Feature(s) impacted

Rich Text display settings.  
I even checked the **Allow to execute JavaScript** option because it didn’t work without it and I wasn’t sure I needed or not because of the description _all HTML and JavaScript content will be interpreted_

 ![Capture d’écran 2022-04-06 à 11.20.55](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/d/dd8780d1d376b641a1936b2af5167a6c1974b338.png)

## Observed behavior

The HTML isn’t interpreted.

 ![Capture d’écran 2022-04-06 à 11.18.20](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/a/a6925dd47adad220adb35ef0ee7b65dfe996aef4.png)

## Expected behavior

Display the inside of the a `<a href="link">Hello</a>` and link to the href when clicking on it.  
I didn’t use the link display settings because the link takes too much space and I want to show something shorter, I could do that but only display the same word for all links and that doesn’t fit my case. Having a default value would be nice so I could show a default value for all links and another value for certain links.

## Context

> Please provide in this **mandatory section** , the relevant information about your configuration:

- Project name: MyTraiteur
- Team name: Operations
- Environment name: Development
- Agent type & version:

```javascript
"meta": {
    "liana": "forest-express-sequelize",
    "liana_version": "8.4.7",
    "stack": {
      "database_type": "mysql",
      "engine": "nodejs",
      "engine_version": "14.17.0",
      "orm_version": "5.15.2"
    }
  }

```

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**Author:** ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/rich-text-not-interpreting-html/4443/2 "2022-04-06T12:51:54Z")

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Hi @mathieuh !  
We currently don’t support computing HTML on the table view (it’s only done on the records details view).  
I’ll push your feature request to the product team !  
In the meantime I’ll ask around to see if we can find a workaround for your use case 🙂

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**Author:** ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/rich-text-not-interpreting-html/4443/3 "2022-04-06T13:02:39Z")

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How many titles do you want to handle ?  
If it’s only two, you could set a title, and only put a link if here is a link, othewise leave it empty

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**Author:** ![mathieuh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/mathieuh/32/953_2.png) [@mathieuh](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/mathieuh)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/rich-text-not-interpreting-html/4443/4 "2022-04-06T13:28:33Z")

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That’s what I used to do, if there is a link, I put a title and if not, I leave it empty, but now for one particular link I need to write another title.