HTML Content Field

The HTML Content field is not a normal input field, it will output as HTML itself between your normal form fields to help organize the form.

This field allows you to enter custom HTML to be displayed within your content management form. It can be placed before, after, or in-between other form fields.

Quick Start

  1. Fill out the Basic Field Settings (Label, Description, and Field Name)
  2. Select Field Type: HTML Content.
  3. Click Save New Field (or Save Field if you’re updating an existing field) to save your field configuration.

Settings

  • HTML Content
    This is the HTML content you want to display.
  • Disable the form label
    When enabled, the form label will not show and the HTML content will appear full width.
  • Output Options
    These options will change the way your field value will display.
    • Trim extra whitespace before/after contents
      This will remove any extra spaces before or after the field value.
    • Enable oEmbed
      Embed videos, images, tweets, and other content using Embeds.
    • Enable wptexturize
      Transforms less-beautiful text characters into stylized equivalents using wptexturize().
    • Enable convert_chars
      Converts text into valid XHTML and Unicode using convert_chars().
    • Enable wpautop
      Changes double line-breaks in the text into HTML paragraphs using wpautop().
    • Allow Shortcodes
      This will process any [shortcodes] that you may have in the field value.

How to Display

This field does not store values and does not display values. If you need to output the HTML from the field itself, you can do this with the examples below. You can use the Field Information notation to display options from a field.

Display with a Shortcode

[pods field="_field.my_html_field.html_content"]

Display with PHP: pods_field_display()

<?php
echo pods_field_display( '_field.my_html_field.html_content' );

Display with PHP: $pod->display()

<?php
$pod = pods();

echo $pod->display( '_field.my_html_field.html_content' );

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