Upgraded 3.x->4.x, now "<b>" tags getting escaped?

[GeoffreyPlitt]

We are upgrading from 3.3.5 to 4.14.1.

Our templates are sometimes escaping tags that used to work. For example, <b>hello</b> used to output as bolded "hello", but now it outputs as <b>hello</b>.

We weren't able to migrate these situations since many are generated in-code and not sitting in mjml files.

Is there a way to get back the old behavior?

[iRyusa]

Maybe you can provide a snippet to reproduce ? It shouldn’t happen.On 3 Nov 2023, at 20:17, Geoffrey Plitt @.***> wrote: We are upgrading from 3.3.5 to 4.14.1. Our templates are sometimes escaping tags that used to work. For example, "hello" used to output as bolded "hello", but now it outputs as <b>hello</b>. We weren't able to migrate these situations since many are generated in-code and not sitting in mjml files. Is there a way to get back the old behavior?

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[GeoffreyPlitt]

Here's a portion of the template that might provide enough context (I was wrong that this part is generated in code, this is indeed in a mjml file):

`

Hi {{toUserName}}!

{{title}}

`

It's the <b>{{toUserName}}!</b> part which is getting escaped.

[iRyusa]

There’s no mj-container in your snippet so it’s already MJML 4 code.On 3 Nov 2023, at 20:23, Geoffrey Plitt @.***> wrote: Here's a portion of the template that might provide enough context (I was wrong that this part is generated in code, this is indeed in a mjml file):

Hi {{toUserName}}!

{{title}}

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[GeoffreyPlitt]

Not sure I understand, because the problem remains. Instead of actual <b> tags, they're being escaped:

<p style="color: #676767;">&lt;b&gt;username123&lt;/b&gt;</p>

Seems to only happen with <b> tags.

How do we stop this?

[GeoffreyPlitt]

For more context, we wished we could remain on the old version of MJML, but we have to upgrade due to vulnerabilities. So we need to find out how to use 4.x but get the 3.x behavior for bold tags.

[iRyusa]

MJML4 doesn't escape tag as MJML3 was doing.

So it's most likely an issue in your pipeline and not in MJML.

If you just take your code in the try it live https://mjml.io/try-it-live/KDMrqyAL9s you see that everything is fine.

[iRyusa]

I think we can close here as we can't reproduce