Title: autopopulating using a shortcode–not working
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# autopopulating using a shortcode–not working

 *  [tracersa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracersa/)
 * (@tracersa)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autopopulating-using-a-shortcode-not-working/)
 * Hi,
 * I am using an event plugin to create a list of upcoming events which also comes
   with a shortcode. I am trying to dynamically add drop down in CF7 which should
   be prepopulated with the events list.
 * Here is the code I used in CF&
 * `[dynamictext dynamictext-310 'my_calendar_upcoming']`
 * but on the front end instead of showing required list, complete HTML is being
   outputted. Any idea what I am missing??
 *     ```
       <ul id='upcoming-events'><br />
       <li><strong>July 21, 2013</strong> – Course 1<br /><span>, General</span></li></p>
       <p><li class="future-event"><strong>July 26, 2013</strong> – 2 Months Short Course<br /><span>7:28 am, General</span></li>
       <br />
       </ul>”
       class=”wpcf7-text” size=”40″  /></span><br/></p>
       ```
   
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension/)

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 * Last reply from: [tracersa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracersa/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/autopopulating-using-a-shortcode-not-working/)
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