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I'm facing an issue where I'm attempting to programmatically set the description property for a taxonomy term that includes HTML, but the HTML is being rendered as text, rather than being rendered into HTML elements, unless I manually access the term in a browser and save it.

Example

taxonomy_term_save((object)array(
  'name' => $name,
  'description' => $t('<h5>My description.</h5><p>More info.</p>'),
  'vid' => $vocab->vid,
));

When I attempt to render the description, it appears as:

<h5>My description.</h5><p>More info.</p>

However, if I then go to Structure > Taxonomy > My_Vocabulary > My_Term and simply save the term (without any edits), it will then render properly as:

My description.

More info.

I've also made a number of attempts to achieve this through an Entity Metadata Wrapper, but no luck (though I am admittedly not well versed on EMWs).

How can I programmatically force the description to correctly render the HTML without having to manually re-save it?

Any help is appreciated!

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  • Just on mobile so can't check - isn't there a format property can you set to full_html, or the name of another more permissive filter?
    – Clive
    Sep 30, 2016 at 8:22
  • From what I can tell, there is no format property because Description is an entity property, rather than a field (corrections to any misunderstanding are welcome!).
    – Beau
    Sep 30, 2016 at 9:26
  • @Clive, I take that back. I was so focused on the idea that the format property belonged to the Description that I didn't think to look at the term itself. There is indeed a format property that I completely overlooked as part of taxonomy_term_save(). Please post this as an answer so I can give you credit.
    – Beau
    Sep 30, 2016 at 9:49
  • Just got back to the computer and answered as it happens :)
    – Clive
    Sep 30, 2016 at 9:50

2 Answers 2

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The taxonomy_term_data table, which is the entity table for taxonomy terms, has a format column which stores the name of a filter to apply to the description when rendered.

It's available as a property on the entity, so you can use:

taxonomy_term_save((object)array(
  'name' => $name,
  'description' => $t('<h5>My description.</h5><p>More info.</p>'),
  'vid' => $vocab->vid,
  'format' => 'full_html',
));
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Use the format property:

$term = taxonomy_term_load($tid);
$term->description = t('<pre><strong>Text</strong></pre>');
$term->format = 'full_html';
taxonomy_term_save($term);
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  • this is also great information and I'm grateful for it! It just happens to be that Clive beat you to it. :-)
    – Beau
    Sep 30, 2016 at 10:00
  • It's not about beating or losing, we all learn and help each other. Remember that you can always reward a good answer not only by accepting it but by up-voting it in either case ;) I up voted Clive's answer while you didn't , see what I mean ?
    – mchar
    Sep 30, 2016 at 10:06
  • Actually, I did upvote his answer (and yours), but my reputation is too puny to count. :/
    – Beau
    Sep 30, 2016 at 10:09

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