Html node not working on string

General
1

Does the html node require more than just a string in msg.payload or does the template node encode the content ? (ie. it looks like html but actually uses an encoded string?)

inject node > template node (as plain text) > html node, selector: td

Template node content:

<td>some content</td>
<td>blabla<br/><a href="#" rel="nofollow"
        title="some title">blabla</a>
</td>

No results.

example flow:

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2

Try wrapping your content in a div

3

is that a workaround or a bug ? No difference btw.

4

try wrapping in a <table></table> tag.

There was a change to library some time ago (like maybe 2 years ago) that affected html fragments are handled.

Ah, here is a follow up issue: feature: HTML: add option to handle fragments rather than whole docs · Issue #3423 · node-red/node-red · GitHub

5

oh, and there is more here: HTML node not extracting content · Issue #3137 · node-red/node-red · GitHub (you might recognise one of the conversation participants :wink:

6

lol its been a while - guess it requires the complete html, table and tr included, then it indeed works. Have to see how i can append it within a flow with elements.