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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-11-24 10:12:42 -0500
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-11-24 10:17:39 -0500
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[1.8.x] Documented that forms.Field.help_text isn't HTML-escaped.
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@@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ The ``help_text`` argument lets you specify descriptive text for this
``Field`` when the ``Field`` is rendered by one of the convenience ``Form``
methods (e.g., ``as_ul()``).
+Like the model field's :attr:`~django.db.models.Field.help_text`, this value
+isn't HTML-escaped in automatically-generated forms.
+
Here's a full example ``Form`` that implements ``help_text`` for two of its
fields. We've specified ``auto_id=False`` to simplify the output::