# Bug Report: showDupes() not HTML-escaping field content

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/bug-report-showdupes-not-html-escaping-field-content/2167>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 11, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/bug-report-showdupes-not-html-escaping-field-content/2167 "2020-08-11T15:44:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![abdo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/abdo/32/654_2.png) [@abdo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/abdo)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/bug-report-showdupes-not-html-escaping-field-content/2167/1 "2020-08-11T15:44:41Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/c/c0c1af2f4a53f623ddb4300c25d4316227ff546e.png)

Clicking on `Show Duplicates` results in this browser search showing nothing.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/d/da3922f61178adf4816e74a9b4e5c1261b02c4df.png)

The issue is that the field content is not HTML-escaped.  
Searching for `&lt;&amp;&gt;` shows the duplicate notes:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/9/916e66ec49424f2b2fb684063fdc2f70b76941d2.png)

This can be fixed by changing this line in editor.py:

```auto
- contents = stripHTMLMedia(self.note.fields[0])
+ contents = html.escape(stripHTMLMedia(self.note.fields[0]))

```

> <https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/d07930753613da3be8e3501192c9da40bb7d01b8/qt/aqt/editor.py#L493>

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/bug-report-showdupes-not-html-escaping-field-content/2167/2 "2020-08-12T10:00:01Z")

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Thanks, will make this change.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/bug-report-showdupes-not-html-escaping-field-content/2167/3 "2023-05-01T05:36:21Z")

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