Multi line custom field badly saved to database

Hello community,
we're fighting currently against a strange issue.
All projects has some multi line custom fields to fill every week for project status.
During this exercise, some of the comments seems not well saved to database.
While coming back to the PDP, we are seeing a strange behavior :
Starting from that, I tried to look in the database and the saved html format is badly formatted, you can see a </div> in the middle and a missing one at the end of the sentence:
<div>Révision et approbation de l'ODS de Facilité.</div> <div> </div></div> <div>Compléter le questionnaire à soumettre aux experts.</div>
<div> </div> <div>Présentation et choix des experts.
As of now, we did not find any reason why this is happening.
While opening back the PDP in edition and saving back ,the problem is solved.
This is annoying because we are treating the html code as xml for reporting as seen here (http://aboutmsproject.com/converting-rtf-to-text-in-sql-revisited/
) and this is crashing because of badly formatted html code
any advices?
regards
Jérome

Hi Jerome,
I've seen this issue occur when text is pasted into the field from other applications, like Outlook and Word. I've not yet been able to determine how to get it to stop. The error then causes the invalid XML issue you are seeing. A former co-worker had successfully
integrated the use of jQuery into PDPs. I'm wondering if they have a HTML clean function.
Thanks for finding my post useful!
Treb Gatte, Project MVP, Tumble Road LLC |
@tgatte | http://AboutMSProject.com

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