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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Enable sanitization on individual fields

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
    • Click Update.
  5. To enable the HTML sanitizer for translated HTML fields, set the glide.translated_html.sanitize_all_fields property is true.