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What's the source of the content you're putting in the field? Are you copying and pasting from Word (which often causes this type of error). Since this is a custom field we don't (yet) have a way to tell IDS to ignore it.

If it's important to be able to save HTML to that custom field, one option is to completely disable the IDS feature. You an do this by editing your civicrm.settings.php file. Find this line:

define( 'CIVICRM_IDS_ENABLE', 1);

and change it to

define( 'CIVICRM_IDS_ENABLE', 0);

Please note that IDS stands for Intrusion Detection System - so disabling it may open your site to hackers inputting malicious javascript into your database (if you have public facing forms).

We don't currently have another solution for this. If you have developer resource you could look at providing a patch which conditionally appends custom "Note" fields to the IDS exceptions array (currently hard-coded in CRM/Core/IDS.php).
 

Client was complaining they couldn't paste this in to a wysiwyg on event rego page.

Participants to the previous xxxxxx already have an account on our web-site. Please 'log in' before proceeding with the registration. In case you forgot your password please request a new one 'here'.

It kept spitting the dummy. I tried pasting in to html directly, via Word.
Finally just started typing in each bit and saving.
Finally it came down to that last word.

If i typed in 'here' (with quote marks) it failed, if i typed it in without them , ie just h e r e - it worked.

I tried typing 'here' on demo just in case - no issues.

I changed demo to tinymce - no issues.

Just flagging it here in case it ever mimics a problem someone else has.

thanks for suggestion - they should be on latest of everything and it wasn't IE in this case