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Text.TextToHTML

Creates HTML text for a given FileMaker formatted styled text.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
Text 4.3 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "Text.TextToHTML"; Text { ; Options } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
Text Formatted text to convert. "Hello World"
Options Available in MBS FileMaker Plugin 6.5 or newer.
The options number for html creation.
Add 1 for having no body around.
Add 2 to have no font names.
Add 4 to have no font sizes.
Add 8 to use strong instead of b tag for bold.
Add 16 to keep links in HTML to pass through <a..></a> tags. (new in 7.4).
Add 32 to use paragraphs. (new in 13.1)
1+2+4+8 Optional

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Creates HTML text for a given FileMaker formatted styled text.
Supports styles like bold, italic, underline, font size and text color. Other style features may be added in the future on demand.

See also Text.EncodeToHTML and GetAsCSS in FileMaker.

Version 11.2 adds support for strikethrough using s tag in html.
Version 12.0 adds superscript and subscript style for HTML.
Version 13.1 adds flag 32 to use <p> instead of <br/><br/> for two returns in the text in a style run.

Examples

Convert some text to HTML

MBS( "Text.TextToHTML"; "Hello World" )

Example result:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello World</p></body>
</html>

Convert some text to RTF

MBS( "Text.TextToRTF"; "Hello World" )

Example result:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252
Hello World
}

Convert without body/header:

MBS( "Text.TextToHTML"; "Hello World”; 1 )

Example result: <p>Hello World</p>

Convert using paragraphs:

MBS( "Text.TextToHTML"; "Hello World¶¶Just a test"; 32 )

Example result:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello World</p>
<p>
Just a test</p></body>
</html>

See also

Release notes

  • Version 13.5
  • Version 13.1
  • Version 12.2
    • Fixed a problem with high unicode character encodings for Text.TextToHTML function.
  • Version 12.0
  • Version 11.2
  • Version 7.4

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Created 7th September 2014, last changed 27th February 2023


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