HTML tag in widget not show as HTML element when insert to the CMS page

Question

I have created a widget text box that contains just an HTML tag.

<h1>Some heading</h1>

and then insert this widget to a CMS page with url: "cms_page_link". When I hit the CMS page URL, for example: http://example.com/cms_page_link/ the page show that widget content just as string with quoted:

"<h1>Some heading</h1>"

not the HTML element as I expected:

Some heading

Have anyway to get HTML tag as normal?

• Khoa Truong: Can you post your code lines of widget here?
• div: Ah none code, I'm just create widget via admin

Answer 1

Solution - "CMS Static Block" widget

1. Go to Content -> Blocks, create a new block, write <h1>Some heading</h1> in it and save.

2. Go to the CMS page you want to edit, insert the widget CMS Static Block, in the widget select the block you just created, then save the page and it will work.

html widget

Solution - Template

Write codes like this {{block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template" name="blockname" template="Vendor_Module::test.phtml" my_vars="123,456"}} in your page. Create the template file in you module, you could use variable in it, it is a flexible way. You could get some info from How to retrieve variable from CMS page in Magento 2

• div: Oh, I known this approach, but I am wanna to use a widget, not CMS blocks
• Key Shang: @viethung But it is indeed a widget type CMS Static Block, it doesn't have obvious difference with created a widget text box that contains just an HTML tag. If you doesn't like this way, you could use template, not widget. I will add it in the answer.

Answer 2

You should use in the template htmlspecialchars_decode($variable);