How to Insert html in custom field (type TextArea) via API

Question

I have a custom field with data type 'Note' and field type 'TextArea'. When I insert a value using the CiviCRM interface, I can insert text via an editor, and bold text gets displayed as bold, italic etc.

Now I want to put html in this same field using the API, but the problem is that any html characters are converted to html entities when inserted.

  $params = array(
  'contact_id' => $contact_id,
  'entity_id' => $contact_id,
  'custom_' . $content_field_id => '<div class="note_content">' . implode('</div><div class="note_content">', $data['note_content']) . '</div>',
);
$create_note_result = $spcivi->api('CustomValue', 'create', $params);

html send via api:

<div class="note_content"><strong>Vette</strong> tekst is toegestaan!</div><div class="note_content"><em>Shuine</em> ook!</div>

result content in field:

<div class="note_content"><strong>Vette</strong> tekst is toegestaan!</div><div class="note_content"><em>Shuine</em> ook!</div>

Is there a way to insert html without the html characters being converted to html entities? Using the field type TextArea becomes quite useless when not html can be inserted.

Answer 1

Have you tried any of the following before submitting the TextArea?

1. Highlight the code portion and Ctrl + K or Command K

2. Indent the code lines 4 spaces

3. Use backtics ' your html '

4. Use code tag <code>your html</code>

Answer 2

This appears to be unsupported in the API, which encodes all HTML values. I've created a JIRA issue to request this functionality: https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-21572