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SharePoint Online Issue with Multiline Plain Text FIelds
There is an issue with Multiline Plain Text Fields in SharePoint Online. If you create a multiline PLAIN TEXT field and put an email address in this field test@test.com, SharePoint magically converts it to
<a href="mailto:test@test.com">test@test.com</a>
which is NOT plain text!!! This is not cool and breaks functionality on my site.
To reproduce this error... go to a list.. create a multiline plain text field... put in a value of "test@test.com". Read the value of that field with REST or look at it in a Quick Edit view... the actual value will be returned as <a href="mailto:test@test.com">test@test.com</a>
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- Ey Mark: are you seeing this in the modern or in the classic UI?
both
Hi Mark Rackley,
In a modern list I added a new multi line list field (from the list view). This is plain text by default:
Then added an item.
Then viewed the item:
All looks right.
Are you getting the html in the interface or when you access the data through code?
