14/05/2026

Form pages displaying strange strings such as:

“;s:6:”m

or stray quotation marks are likely caused by corrupted Formidable Custom HTML templates.

Issue found in:
Formidable → Forms → [affected form] → Settings → Customize HTML

Corruption appeared as:

• leading quotation mark before opening div:
  “<div id=”frm_field_[id]_container”
• trailing serialised fragment after closing div: </div>”;s:6:”m

Fix:
Remove the stray leading quotation mark and trailing serialised fragment so the template starts directly with:

and ends cleanly with:

Likely cause:
These forms have been copied/reused repeatedly over many years and across multiple sites, which may have caused corruption in serialised Formidable form data.

Recommendation:
Consider rebuilding the oldest heavily reused forms from scratch to avoid future corruption issues.