Markdown and plaintext output include HTML entities

[MoritzLost]

Description

Not quite sure if this is working as intended and I'm just missing something, but looks like a bug or oversight to me.

The CKEditor content can be accessed as Markdown or plaintext through the FieldData class. But the output still includes encoded HTML entities. For Markdown this is somewhat reasonable, not sure if that's necessary to prevent injection. But for Plaintext, this doesn't make sense. If you want to output something as plaintext, that means it won't be interpreted as HTML, so the HTML entities will appear as-is on screen.

Steps to reproduce

1. Enter Foo & Bar in a CKEditor field.
2. In a template, try to access the value as Markdown or Plaintext:

{{ entry.myCKEditorField }}
{# <p>Foo &amp; Bar</p> #}

{{ entry.myCKEditorField.getMarkdown() }}
{# Foo &amp; Bar #}

{{ entry.myCKEditorField.getPlainText() }}
{# Foo &amp; Bar #}

Additional info

• CKEditor version: 4.11.1
• Craft version: 5.9.12
• PHP version: 8.3

[linear]

PT-3065

[i-just]

Hi, thanks for getting in touch!

Both those methods use https://github.com/thephpleague/html-to-markdown/ underneath. There’s a ticket in their repo that explains why this happens: thephpleague/html-to-markdown#193.

That said, I agree that while this is fine for the getMarkdown() method, it’s probably not expected for getPlainText().

I raised a PR for this in the html-field repo.

[MoritzLost]

@i-just Yeah, makes sense for Markdown, good to have the full picture. Thanks for the adjustment for plain text, that will be useful.

BTW, it's already incredibly handy to have those methods built-in in the first place, just saved me a bunch of time. Thanks for that!