Before and after text content are not the same as field values. They are displayed on the front end in span elements like this: <span class="frm_inline_box">1.</span>.

Both textual elements are decorative details stored in Formidable's field definition as the prepend and append properties. This is a little hard to read, but this is how Formidable stores a field definition in the database.


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This data stream is a PHP serialized array. Even if you could save the prepend and append properties as part of the field value, you would end up having them show twice when you displayed the form again. The prepend and append properties would display as well as what you've stored in the field. So your display would look like this:

prepend "prepend-field value-append" append

If you want to display the prepend and append in a view, you just type them in as standard HTML.