Question

i am using site content type RichHtmlField as Full HTML type with value = hello
PublishingWebControls:RichHtmlField tag in layoutpage does not render it.

Instead of displaying hello. it is displaying html tags.

Any help wold b appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

I came across this post while looking for a solution the exact same problem, and I think I found an answer.

In my scenario, I had multiple RichHtmlFields on my page, and one was displaying correctly while another was not. When I viewed the fields via the powershell, I noticed a difference in the SchemaXML, the WORKING field had the following additional properties:

 RichText="True"
 RichTextMode="FullHtml"

I wrote a quick powershell script to update the problem field, and the problem went away for me (look below for script). The change has to be made at the list level for it to take affect on existing pages/lists, but I believe making the modification to the column at the root web (or correct subweb) would work as well.

 $web = $site.OpenWeb($site.RootWeb.ID)
 $list = $web.Lists["Pages"]
 [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.HtmlField]$field =   [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.HtmlField]$list.Fields.GetFieldByInternalName("Abst     ract")
 $field.RichText = $true
 $field.RichTextMode = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRichTextMode]::FullHtml
 $field.Update()
 $list.Update()