Title: Links not Importing from CSV File
Last modified: January 24, 2025

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# Links not Importing from CSV File

 *  Resolved [coltonhashmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coltonhashmt/)
 * (@coltonhashmt)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-not-importing-from-csv-file/)
 * Hi, I am having an issue working with CSV files exported from Ninja Tables that
   contain HTML Links. 
   As a quick test, I made a simple table with an HTML field
   for hyperlinks. When I export the table as a csv, I get this result:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       Name,Link"Link 1","<a href=""https://www.google.com/"">Google</a>""Link 2","<a href=""https://www.bing.com/"">Bing</a>"
       ```
   
 * If I import that same .csv file with Ninja Tables, the table only has an empty
   anchor tag for the cell contents. For example: <a>Google</a>
 * For the new table, I set the Link Column to be an HTML field, then tried reimporting
   the .csv file and it has the same result.
   If I manually change the .csv file 
   to the following the links are imported properly:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       Name,Link"Link 1",<a href="https://www.google.com/">Google</a>"Link 2",<a href="https://www.bing.com/">Bing</a>
       ```
   
 * So obviously this is a problem with CSV files containing quotation marks for 
   strings, but it seems like Ninja Tables should be able to parse HTML tags properly,
   especially when the file is exported from Ninja Tables? 
   I have to modify file
   paths for a table with 6000 entries, so I need to use excel to alter the exported
   csv file, and then reimport the edited csv as a new table. Let me know if there
   is some other way to import csv files , or if there is a secret setting that 
   allows ninja tables to properly parse HTML tags from a csv. Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Support [Syed Numan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annuman/)
 * (@annuman)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-not-importing-from-csv-file/#post-18313198)
 * Hello [@coltonhashmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coltonhashmt/),
 * We are pleased to inform you that we have released an update addressing this 
   issue, and you should no longer encounter any problems moving forward. To ensure
   everything works smoothly, please update both Ninja Tables plugins at your earliest
   convenience. 
 * Thank you

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## Tags

 * [csv](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/csv/)
 * [hyperlinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hyperlinks/)
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 * [links](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/links/)

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 * Last activity: [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-not-importing-from-csv-file/#post-18313198)
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