APEX strips HTML in LOV

Question

Hi,
I have a hierarchical query to generate LOV values with a delimiter separating each level in the hierarchy. I use a regular expression to surround the last value with '<b>value</b>'.
However, when I test the results, either the opening bold tag or both the opening and closed bold tags are stripped from the LOV (depending on what's between them).
Does anyone know how to tell APEX to not strip the tags? I looked at earlier posts and saw 'Strip HTML ' as a setting but could not find that in the scope of an LOV.
Here is a simple example of the LOV query that will be affected by this:
select '<b>TEST</b>' display_value, dummy return_value from dual;
Thanks,
Corey

Answer 1

Hi Corey,
There's no simple way to highlight just a portion of the text unless you use uppercase or asterisks or something else that stands out. Instead of using  , you should use character 160 - in your sql statement, where you want this to appear, hold down the alt key, then type 0160 on the number keypad and then release the alt key. On screen this is a space but for html, this is just a character like any other.
One other method, which I seen used somewhere in this forum, is to insert a separator option and then disable that using the following in the region footer:
<script type="text/javascript">
var x = document.getElementById("P1_LANGUAGE");
var o = x.options;
for (var k = 0; k < o.length; k++)
  if (o[k].value == '- - - - - - - - - - - - -')
    o[k].disabled = true;
</script>The '- - - - - - - - - - - - -' shown is whatever value you specify for the separator.
I'm not sure how easy it would be for you to do this in your sql statement?
Otherwise, as Tyler suggests, try things in static files - this is how I tend to work out this sort of thing. If you can get something to work there, it should be doable in Apex.
Andy