Title: Text Field Dropping Partial Data
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Text Field Dropping Partial Data

 *  Resolved [manakuke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manakuke/)
 * (@manakuke)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-field-dropping-partial-data/)
 * When a user on the front end submits data in a text field, either by typing or
   copying pasting from Word, any text after a greater or less than symbol immediately
   followed by a number gets dropped. For example,
 * > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
   > incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis 
   > nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
   > <2 Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore
   > eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt
   > in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
 * Everything after the “<2” gets dropped and not saved into the database. If it
   is typed as “< 2” (including a space between the symbol and the number, it inserts
   the contents in its entirety.
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 *  Plugin Author [hoffcamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoffcamp/)
 * (@hoffcamp)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-field-dropping-partial-data/#post-4351436)
 * What is happening is the `<2` and following content is being stripped as an HTML
   tag (see under Forms > Advanced Settings > Content Filtering). I’m not sure how
   to fix this, since the tag stripping works via a whitelist of allowed tags, instead
   of specifically blocking tags.
 *  Plugin Author [hoffcamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoffcamp/)
 * (@hoffcamp)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-field-dropping-partial-data/#post-4351437)
 * There is a solution, and I’ll include it into the next release. For now, you 
   can replace line 369 of helpers.php with:
 * `return htmlspecialchars($str);`
 * Instead of stripping tags from input, it will include their literal text. I’ll
   add this as an optional behavior in the next version.
 *  Thread Starter [manakuke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manakuke/)
 * (@manakuke)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-field-dropping-partial-data/#post-4351465)
 * Thank you. This helps very much!

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-field-dropping-partial-data/#post-4351465)
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