Create a note that has a null first line and a non-null second line. In other words, start a new note by first hitting the Enter key and then typing in some text. The text will be on the second line of the note. Make sure the note is well and truly saved.
Open the note second time. Without moving the cursor at all, type some text on the first line, not followed by hitting the Enter key. Unslide the note. The HTML junk will have appeared. Or click the Checkmark icon and Unslide the note. The HTML junk will have appeared.
It seems likely to me that this is not a bug in RM8 itself, but rather is a bug in the library that RM8 is using for the text editor.
I have recently encountered RM (8.2.7.0) note configuration errors, whereby plain text appears with html coding the next time the note field is opened.
For example this text: “First name(s): George William”
becomes: [swapping ‘<’ with ‘[’ to display here]
[FONT face=“Segoe UI” style=“font-size:14pt” color=“#000000”]First name(s): George William
I see the html formatting when doing a copy and paste from other genealogy applications. The opening post in this thread describes a different scenario.
Interesting. I have been using Roots Magic 7 for years and love it. However, I recently opened the General Notes box in one of my ancestors and all of the notes are now in HTML code. I checked other ancestor’s notes and found the same thing. I have no idea how this happened but I can’t find any information about how to change them back to just normal notes with no code. Does anyone have any ideas of how I can get rid of the HTML codes in my Notes? Thank you.
One idea is to select the entire text of a Note, copy it and then paste into a “HTML stripper”. Then copy the result back into the Note. You will find online services and apps in an Internet search However, the results may not be fully to your liking and additional editing may be needed.
That’s a one-note-at-a-time process so another procedure might be a SQLite query of the database using a function to replace HTML tags matching a regular expression. Similar caveat about the result.
Thank you, Tom. That’s a help. I’ll try the SQLite solution first. I’m also thinking that I only added one family group since the last saved gedcom file, and that file does not have the HTML code. I might just open that and then add that one family to it. That might be the simplest way to deal with this. Thank you so much for your advice.
