Removing label HTML formatting from survey results?

Question

Using this blog post Surveys with style https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2015/08/24/surveys-with-style#comments I added html formatting to my survey choices to make my text legible against my color scheme. e.g. from XLSform, choices sheet. list_name, name, label, respectively landownerUNDUndetermined However in my Survey Results, it continues to use these labels versus the name assigned to it. Should html formatting be reserved for notes and hints only? Or can I change the appearance of choices some other way? Thanks!

HannahFerrier · Answer

Good news Mary - this issue will be fixed in the next release of Survey123!!

Any HTML formatting will be stripped from your labels when they are used to create the field alias values. Or, if you prefer, you can specify your own field alias values to override the values from the label field.

Keep an eye on our blog because the next release drops soon!!

- Hannah

Mary_AnnSweeney · Answer

Realized this was in the wrong group, moved it to the correct one. Thanks.

TedKowal · Answer

Mary, given what you gave, I assume that these fields were basically used for label formatting on a published map or report. You now wish to use these field as data inputs elsewhere, but have html coding as part of the field. This was an old fashion way of formatting labels. My suggestion is to either write a script to strip the html tags or use the field calculator advanced section and write a mini script to trip the tags away from the string. Python has a module called HTMLParser which does the very thing you are look for and a more through way of doing the stripping the code would look something like this... More advanced type of Python

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser class MLStripper(HTMLParser): def __init__(self): self.reset() self.fed = [] def handle_data(self, d): self.fed.append(d) def handle_entityref(self, name): self.fed.append('&%s;' % name) def get_data(self): return ''.join(self.fed) def html_to_text(html): s = MLStripper() s.feed(html) return s.get_data() Your examples appear to be fairly simple in nature so using the field calculator you may be able to successfully strip the tags using the following mini script : Expression: remove_html_tags(!YourFieldName!) Code Block: import re def remove_html_tags(data): p = re.compile(r'<.*?>') return p.sub('', data)