Crowdflower: how to include custom HTML?

Question

I am trying to create a job on Crowdflower with its Builder tool. So far so good. I have items of text that I want people to label:

a string with some <b>html</b> elements, such as <p> and <br>

When I include {{text}} in the Crowdflower Builder, instead of showing the text in bold or with extra linebreaks, it literally shows me the html tags. I had a look at the HTML page source that is created by the Builder, it seems that somewhere in the Crowdflower pipeline all my HTML tags are converted to

 a string with some <b>html</b> elements, such as <p> and <br>

Is there a way to get around this restriction? I really need the custom HTML tags for my job. There is an option to include your own CSS and Javascript in a job, and my last resort would be to write a Javascript function that unescapes my HTML tags. But I am hoping that I miss something extremely simple here.

Sorry about the misleading "Javascript" tagging, I cannot create a custom tag (which would have been crowdfower).

EDIT:

In case someone has the same problem: writing a custom Javascript function does actually work, I just tried it. Still hoping for a better solution though :)

Answer 1

Are you still having an issue with this? It should work. I can upload a CSV with a column called text and then use {{text}} in the CML editor to display the text with bold and line breaks that you included above. Feel free to message me if you're still having trouble.

The template language is a subset of Liquid from Shopify although it sounds like you might already be familiar with that.

Answer 2

In which format do you upload your data?

I had the same problem: I started with CSV, had columns messed up with bigger imports and switched to ODS-spreadsheet, which worked fine. However, ODS seems to save tags in entity-encoding, which Crowdflower doesn't decode. Thus, becomes "<b>", so that you cannot import html tags with ODS.

Uploading my data in JSON solved all problems and tags work as they should, without JS work-arounds.