# Please help me!

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**Created:** [March 2, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me/217877 "2007-03-02T17:18:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![ipuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4af34b/32.png) [@ipuff](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ipuff)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-me/217877/1 "2007-03-02T17:18:29Z")

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Hi everyone,  
i am loosing my hair over this. here’s what im trying to do. i am using the datefield component. basically when the user chooses a date. it gets posted to a text field and the user clicks sumbit to email the date. the emailing is working like a charm.  
my problem is that the datefield component posts the text in html format. so when i recieve the email, i get it in html format and very hard to read. i have made sure that the text field “Render text as HTML” is turned off.  
when i put a trace on the datefield, it provides the data in html format too.  
i just dont know what to do.

please give me some ideas.

thanks