Multiline text field and strange output

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

I have a multiline text input field in a PowerApps form, connected to a list in SPO. It is also set up as multiline in SPO.

When someone is creating a new list item, the multiline text input field is properly blank, but after input has been made and the item saved, it generates "<div class="ExternalClass4412B4F498D14C7A8CA00337A6075684">Hello there!</div>".

For example, if I were to create an item and input "Hello there!" in the multiline text input field, the result would show as:

It basically adds in the whole "<div class=" etc etc formatting in there. This is just a regular, multiline plain text input field. Any ideas why this is happening? I've tried looking to see if any formatting is applied, but it's really just a straight up text field.

Thanks in advance, everyone!

[Jeff_Thorpe · Accepted solution]

Normally when I see this it is because the multi line text column in SharePoint is set to use enhanced rich text. If the column does have this setting and you are only using it for text then you can turn it off.

[Anonymous]

That was it. 🙂 After disabling rich text, it fixed it.

Even if rich text is enabled, why would the whole formatting div=class thing appear, if only regular text is inputted? 

Thanks so much!

[luuminhvuong93]

@Jeff_Thorpe   When you change the format to plain text, will you lose all the previous data in different format?

[ProgrammerJaDe]

For users finding this for the first time, you will not lose data when you change to plain text, it just removes the html formatting. Big thanks to Jeff for the quick solution.