How can I can HTML code to appear as code in the field instructions?

• daniellefrappier

• September 22, 2016 at 5:39 am

I’m trying to output this in an instruction field for a text field:

Put freelancer promotions here. Use this shortcode to display it in your article:
<div class=”author-promo”>[acf field="author_promo"]</div>

I have tried this:

<div class="author-promo">[acf field="author_promo"]</div>

But the divs still don’t show.

• John Huebner

• September 22, 2016 at 5:47 am

If you want to show html then you’ll need to put the HTML entities into the label. Either that or filter the label when loading the field. Something like this should work

add_filter('acf/load_field/name=your-field-name', 'acf_label_htmlentities');
function acf_label_htmlentities($field) {
 $field['label'] = htmleneities($field['label']);
 return $field;
}

• daniellefrappier

• September 22, 2016 at 6:27 am

Not sure what I’m doing wrong but I keep getting:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function htmleneities()

    add_filter('acf/load_field/name=author_promo', 'acf_label_htmlentities');
    function acf_label_htmlentities($field) {
        $field['label'] = htmleneities($field['label']);
        return $field;
    }

• John Huebner

• September 22, 2016 at 7:17 am

because I can’t spell

add_filter('acf/load_field/name=author_promo', 'acf_label_htmlentities');
    function acf_label_htmlentities($field) {
        $field['label'] = htmlentities($field['label']);
        return $field;
    }