# Making it impossible to write html in the text field

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/making-it-impossible-to-write-html-in-the-text-field/19061>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v3\
**Created:** [August 13, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/making-it-impossible-to-write-html-in-the-text-field/19061 "2020-08-13T09:02:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![coolcoolhomebody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@coolcoolhomebody](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/coolcoolhomebody)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/making-it-impossible-to-write-html-in-the-text-field/19061/1 "2020-08-13T09:02:54Z")

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I want to make it impossible to write html for what I write in the text or textarea field.  
It’s like a ‘pre’ tag.  
Because I want to use characters like ‘\<\> . -’ without html tag.

How do I do it in blueprint or frontend?

blueprint

> ```
> fields:
> booksdetails:
> type: textarea
> 
> ```

frontend

> \<?= $page-\>booksdetails()-\>kt() ?\>

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**Author:** ![pixelijn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@pixelijn](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/pixelijn)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/making-it-impossible-to-write-html-in-the-text-field/19061/2 "2020-08-13T09:55:59Z")

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Hm, you probably mean you want to escape those characters in markdown? You can use a backslash escape.

[https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#backslash](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#backslash)