Enable sanitization on individual fields

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 1 minute to read

    • You can use field attributes to enable or disable the sanitizer on individual fields.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    About this task

    You need to first set the sanitizer property to false, and then enable the sanitizer on a per-field basis for any form.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to the sys_properties table and set the glide.html.sanitize_all_fields to false.
      This disables the sanitizer for all HTML fields in the system.
    2. Navigate to the form that contains the HTML field.
    3. Right-click the HTML field label, and select Configure Dictionary.
      The Dictionary Entry form opens for the HTML field.
    4. Enter one of the following in the Attributes field:
      • To disable sanitization enter html_sanitize=false
      • To enable sanitization enter html_sanitize=true
    5. Click Update.
    6. To enable the HTML sanitizer for translated HTML fields, set the glide.translated_html.sanitize_all_fields property is true.