https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/html-within-default-value-on-paragraph-text-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: HTML within Default Value on Paragraph Text field en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:38:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/html-within-default-value-on-paragraph-text-field#post-52776 Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:35:46 +0000 WebEndev 52776@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks Kevin, that's what I thought.</p> <p>What I was doing was using a paragraph text field, populating the default value with some text (agreement terms), then made the field readonly.<br /> I would have used an HTML block field, but I needed to have the agreement terms sent back to the forms entries database, to document what the user was agreeing to.<br /> I didn't see any other way to do this, but to use a paragraph field.<br /> Any other ways you can think of?<br /> Maybe GF needs a new field type called 'Read Only'?</p> <p>Thanks! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/html-within-default-value-on-paragraph-text-field#post-52774 Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:07:54 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 52774@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Nope. Textarea form controls don't render HTML. That's not a Gravity Forms limitation, that's just how the form controls work. It might render the default text HTML if you were using a WYSIWYG script like TinyMCE, etc. to add HTML support for the paragraph text field/textarea. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/html-within-default-value-on-paragraph-text-field#post-52751 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:31:21 +0000 WebEndev 52751@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I tried to used some html markup in the default value of a paragraph text field,, and it displays the markup on the front end (I also made it a readonly field, fwiw).</p> <p>So I take it that html cannot be used within the default value text? </p>