Answered

Editor Replacing '< br>' literal with line breaks in all of my flows!

(1) Share

Report

Posted on by AaronBastian

Hi,

I often compose or make a variable with HTML text in it. Now, it seems that the editor is actually interpreting the <br> of the HTML to literal line breaks. Anyone else experiencing this? Attached GIF shows what is happening.

Categories:

Building flows

I have the same question (0)

All responses (5)

Answers (2)

Suggested answer

Ellis Karim 11,985 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

Like (0)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!

Hi AaronBastian,

Yes, I can recreate the same issue. It is an "issue" with the new editor. Switchback to the classic editor and you will see that the <br> tags are still there:

Ellis Karim
Blog | LinkedIn | Bluesky

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Verified answer

Ellis Karim 11,985 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

Like (0)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!

Hi @AaronBastian,

Did switching back to the classic editor fix your issue?

Ellis Karim
Blog | LinkedIn | Bluesky

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Verified answer

AaronBastian 64 on at

Like (0)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!

@Ellis Karim yes, but I wouldn't really consider this a solution. I'll mark it as answer for you, but what I ended up doing is just putting NEWLINE wherever I want a <br> and then using replace(Text, 'NEWLINE', '<br>'). Not eloquent, but it works and should be future proof enough until/if they resolve this issue.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
David_MA 14,085 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

Like (3)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!

I recently experienced this with the new designer as well. I made the mistake of switching to it in one flow I was working on, and it replaced <br> with a space. In addition, I had a couple of tables in the e-mail, and it added <tbody><tr> tags to it that threw off the columns in the tables, and it added border="1" to the table tag that threw off my CSS (<table border="1">). It was a complete mess.

I used a compose action to create the e-mail and then put the body of the compose action in the e-action. However, based on your post, it looks like that doesn't work either. I guess it means continue using the classic designer and avoid the new one like the plague.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
AaronBastian 64 on at

Like (1)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!

@David_MA, Yeah its a shame because the new editor has so many helpful features, but has all of these odd bugs that render it unusable in some cases.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No