Text not rendering properly in the "Recently updated card" #1726

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OVERLORD · 2026-02-05T01:43:22+03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:43:22 +03:00

Originally created by @rakeshdas1 on GitHub (May 11, 2020).

Describe the bug
I have a page in one of my books that has the following text: Authy -> AndOTP. For some reason, when I save the page and go back to my Bookstack home page, the page shows up in the "Recently Updated Pages" card, but the text in the recently updated section doesn't render properly, it shows the escaped character for the greater than sign: Authy -> AndOTP. Looks like when the text is retrieved from the DB, the escape characters aren't accounted for properly.

Steps To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Create a page with a less than or a greater than sign near the beginning of the page.
Go back to Bookstack homepage.
Look at the "Recently Updated Pages" card and see that the less than and/or greater than sign isn't rendered properly.

Expected behavior
The text in the "Recently Updated Pages" card should properly render the greater than sign and read out Authy -> AndOTP.

Screenshots
My page looks like this:

The "Recently Updated Pages" card looks like this:

Your Configuration (please complete the following information):

Exact BookStack Version (Found in settings): v0.29.0
PHP Version: 7.3.16
Hosting Method (Nginx/Apache/Docker): Docker

Originally created by @rakeshdas1 on GitHub (May 11, 2020). **Describe the bug** I have a page in one of my books that has the following text: `Authy -> AndOTP`. For some reason, when I save the page and go back to my Bookstack home page, the page shows up in the "Recently Updated Pages" card, but the text in the recently updated section doesn't render properly, it shows the escaped character for the greater than sign: `Authy -> AndOTP`. Looks like when the text is retrieved from the DB, the escape characters aren't accounted for properly. **Steps To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Create a page with a less than or a greater than sign near the beginning of the page. 2. Go back to Bookstack homepage. 3. Look at the "Recently Updated Pages" card and see that the less than and/or greater than sign isn't rendered properly. **Expected behavior** The text in the "Recently Updated Pages" card should properly render the greater than sign and read out `Authy -> AndOTP`. **Screenshots** My page looks like this: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6901641/81582089-3a7dc880-9375-11ea-9260-0d1fefb79c91.png) The "Recently Updated Pages" card looks like this: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6901641/81582167-508b8900-9375-11ea-91d0-1d3b8f6f96aa.png) **Your Configuration (please complete the following information):** - Exact BookStack Version (Found in settings): v0.29.0 - PHP Version: 7.3.16 - Hosting Method (Nginx/Apache/Docker): Docker

OVERLORD added the 🐛 Bug 🏭 Back-End labels 2026-02-05 01:43:22 +03:00

OVERLORD closed this issue

2026-02-05 01:43:28 +03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:43:35 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (May 12, 2020):

Thanks for reporting @rakeshdas1.
Can confirm this issue exists, Likely just where we're scraping the text from the HTML but not decoding the HTML entities. Should be an easy fix but will need testing.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (May 12, 2020): Thanks for reporting @rakeshdas1. Can confirm this issue exists, Likely just where we're scraping the text from the HTML but not decoding the HTML entities. Should be an easy fix but will need testing.

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:43:38 +03:00

@rakeshdas1 commented on GitHub (May 12, 2020):

Sounds good, thanks Dan! Please let know if you guys need help testing.

@rakeshdas1 commented on GitHub (May 12, 2020): Sounds good, thanks Dan! Please let know if you guys need help testing.

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:43:41 +03:00

@TheAmigo commented on GitHub (Sep 15, 2020):

FYI: the HTML entity names also show when viewing the list of pages in a book. Hopefully the fix covers both cases.

@TheAmigo commented on GitHub (Sep 15, 2020): FYI: the HTML entity names also show when viewing the list of pages in a book. Hopefully the fix covers both cases. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4148739/93258488-ff950280-f763-11ea-91ba-bb37ce58f065.png)

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 01:43:43 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Sep 19, 2020):

Thanks to @mr-vinn this now has a fix ready to be part of the next release, Hence this issue is now closed.

Note, You will need to re-save a page with changes for the updates to take affect to a page excerpt.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Sep 19, 2020): Thanks to @mr-vinn this now has a fix ready to be part of the next release, Hence this issue is now closed. Note, You will need to re-save a page with changes for the updates to take affect to a page excerpt.

OVERLORD referenced this issue

2026-02-05 10:19:05 +03:00

[PR #1726] [CLOSED] New setting - Enable inheritance of permission to a book when assigning to a shelf #5867

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