# HTML stripped from content when watch/replace, but not when written directly

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-stripped-from-content-when-watch-replace-but-not-when-written-directly/223125>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [April 4, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-stripped-from-content-when-watch-replace-but-not-when-written-directly/223125 "2022-04-04T11:36:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-stripped-from-content-when-watch-replace-but-not-when-written-directly/223125/7 "2022-04-04T23:47:26Z")

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shifting this to #Contribute > Feature, I agree there is a bit of a consistency issue here and we should probably call out better what happens.

I think the workaround by David gives us plenty of mileage though within the current constraints.

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