Smart Forms - Multi-line Text Field with HTML pre Tags

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When you enable the Allow multiple lines option for a text field but do not also enable the Allow rich formatting option, the content of that field is wrapped in HTML 

 and  tags, which styles the text as a fixed-width font that preserves spaces and line breaks. As a result, you may see that the text in that field does not respect the styling from parent elements such as a table.

You can set the option in the Smart Form configuration text field's properties (Workarea > Settings > Configuration > Smart Form Configurations , and choose the data design view at the top). Right click on the text field and choose properties to change this. 

multiple lines

To avoid the above behavior, enable Allow rich formatting , which does not wrap the content in 

 tags.