Hope this helps someone.
An end user was entering a lesson's details into a string(1024)
They saved the form, the field is a text box with Redactor allowing XHtml
When they then open this record it appears blank.
I gave the site supervisor two ways of editing the record, one as plain text and one as a redactor view (pretty html with bold and stuff) The plain text showed a lot of html text.
The user had typed in maybe 2000 characters, so it was bigger than the 1024 I anticipated.
THE PROBLEM
They had an ordered list at the bottom like this below
<ol>
<li> blah </li>
<li> blah </li>
<li> blah
So with no closing </li></ol> redactor could not show ANY text !
Img shows how I put an anchor to load a text only form ie no xhtml and no redactor.
normal form is UpdateLessonGraphic and anchor calls form UpdateLessonTextOnly
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