Posted by onyx on Mon, Nov 09, 2026 - 2:35pm

What's likely to be going on if I cannot change the default formatting options for a Body field of a Content Type? It stick on a per-node basis, but not when editing the Default through eg /admin/structure/types/manage/insight/fields/body, instead dropping back to Plain Text.

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Mon, Nov 09, 2026 - 4:18pm by onyx

If I add default text to the body, with the type of Filtered_HTML, then save that, then it holds. So leaving Body empty is the problem. Bug?

Mon, Nov 09, 2026 - 4:18pm by onyx

If I add default text to the body, with the type of Filtered_HTML, then save that, then it holds. So leaving Body empty is the problem. Bug?

Mon, Nov 09, 2026 - 4:21pm by onyx

Without default text JSON =
  

{
   "_config_name": "field.instance.node.insight.body",
   "field_name": "body",
   "entity_type": "node",
   "bundle": "insight",
   "label": "Main Body",
   "widget": {
       "weight": "3",
       "type": "text_textarea_with_summary",
       "module": "text",
       "active": 1,
       "settings": {
           "rows": "10",
           "show_token_tree": 0,
           "summary_rows": 5
       }
   },
   "settings": {
       "text_processing": "1",
       "allowed_formats": [
           "filtered_html",
           "full_html",
           "plain_text"
       ],
       "display_summary": 1,
       "user_register_form": false
   },
   "display": {
       "default": {
           "label": "hidden",
           "type": "advanced_text",
           "weight": "2",
           "settings": {
               "trim_length": "0",
               "ellipsis": 1,
               "word_boundary": 1,
               "use_summary": 0,
               "token_replace": 0,
               "filter": "input",
               "format": "filtered_html",
               "allowed_html": [
                   "a",
                   "b",
                   "br",
                   "dd",
                   "dl",
                   "dt",
                   "em",
                   "i",
                   "li",
                   "ol",
                   "p",
                   "strong",
                   "u",
                   "ul"
               ],
               "autop": 0,
               "field_wrappers": {
                   "field_wrapper": "-",
                   "label_wrapper": "-",
                   "item_wrapper": "-",
                   "field_wrapper_class": "bodytext"
               }
           },
           "module": "advanced_text_formatter"
       },
       "teaser": {
           "label": "hidden",
           "type": "text_summary_or_trimmed",
           "settings": {
               "trim_length": 600,
               "field_wrappers": {
                   "field_wrapper": "-",
                   "label_wrapper": "-",
                   "item_wrapper": "-",
                   "field_wrapper_class": ""
               }
           },
           "module": "text",
           "weight": 0
       }
   },
   "description": "",
   "required": 0,
   "deleted": 0,
   "default_value": null,
   "default_value_function": null
}

Mon, Nov 09, 2026 - 4:22pm by onyx

With default text JSON= 

{
   "_config_name": "field.instance.node.insight.body",
   "field_name": "body",
   "entity_type": "node",
   "bundle": "insight",
   "label": "Main Body",
   "widget": {
       "weight": "3",
       "type": "text_textarea_with_summary",
       "module": "text",
       "active": 1,
       "settings": {
           "rows": "10",
           "show_token_tree": 0,
           "summary_rows": 5
       }
   },
   "settings": {
       "text_processing": "1",
       "allowed_formats": [
           "filtered_html",
           "full_html",
           "plain_text"
       ],
       "display_summary": 1,
       "user_register_form": false
   },
   "display": {
       "default": {
           "label": "hidden",
           "type": "advanced_text",
           "weight": "2",
           "settings": {
               "trim_length": "0",
               "ellipsis": 1,
               "word_boundary": 1,
               "use_summary": 0,
               "token_replace": 0,
               "filter": "input",
               "format": "filtered_html",
               "allowed_html": [
                   "a",
                   "b",
                   "br",
                   "dd",
                   "dl",
                   "dt",
                   "em",
                   "i",
                   "li",
                   "ol",
                   "p",
                   "strong",
                   "u",
                   "ul"
               ],
               "autop": 0,
               "field_wrappers": {
                   "field_wrapper": "-",
                   "label_wrapper": "-",
                   "item_wrapper": "-",
                   "field_wrapper_class": "bodytext"
               }
           },
           "module": "advanced_text_formatter"
       },
       "teaser": {
           "label": "hidden",
           "type": "text_summary_or_trimmed",
           "settings": {
               "trim_length": 600,
               "field_wrappers": {
                   "field_wrapper": "-",
                   "label_wrapper": "-",
                   "item_wrapper": "-",
                   "field_wrapper_class": ""
               }
           },
           "module": "text",
           "weight": 0
       }
   },
   "description": "",
   "required": 0,
   "deleted": 0,
   "default_value": [
       {
           "summary": "",
           "value": "<p><strong>Delete this TEXT</strong></p>",
           "format": "filtered_html"
       }
   ],
   "default_value_function": null
}