Question about results.html() wraps text in a span

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Hi all,

Happy new Year 2026!.

I have a question about the results.html() wraps text in a span

<span class="ol_wrapped dynamic" data-matched="@My Content Here@">
<p>Hello World!</p>
</span>

I have an issue where if the text/content is larger in height than the page size of my document, it does not flow to the next page. I have spplied these settings on my master page 1

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And my sheet configuration as the below

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The @My Content Here@ is populated with html contents with lots of paragraphs and ables.

Is there a way to remove this span and still render the html content as html? I think this span is the culprit.

Thank you in advance.

James.

3

The result of a text search gets wrapped in a span if it is not a discrete element. In your case the @My Content Here@ text is probably followed by other content.

I think things will work better if you use replaceWith() instead of html(). That way the span gets replaced with the Hello World paragraph.

(And Happy New Year to you too!)

4

Hi @Sander,

That seems to work, thank you.

I also noticed that when I use a paragraph tag with a class, an additional “dynamic” class is automatically added to the paragraph.

<p class="my-content-here dynamic"></p>

It still works as expected, and the settings defined on the master page cause the content to break correctly.

Is this the expected behaviour? When using only a text placeholder (for example, @My Content Here@), is the content wrapped in a span element instead?

5

Yes, in some scenarios the current version of Connect adds the “dynamic” class to scripted content. This is meant to trigger an internal style rule with user-modify:read-only, ensuring that scripted content is read-only in preview mode. This is just cosmetic, it should not affect output.

Adding that class is actually legacy behavior. We are no longer adding it in the upcoming CEF-based version of Connect.

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