Testing Symfony 2 form that contains html data - html

Question

Given that a page http://test.intra has the following form code:
<form>
<textarea id="description" name="description"><p>Hello</p></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submit_save" id='submit_btn' value="Save">
</form>
description field is submitted on browser with value <p>Hello</p>
But using the following code:
$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'http://test.intra');
/* $client is a instance of \Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Client ]
* $crawler is a instance of \Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler
*/
$domForm = $crawler->filter('form');
$domForm = $domForm->selectButton('submit_btn');
$this->client->submit($form);
description field is submited with value &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
Should client [\Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Client] decode form data before submit is called? Am I missing something?
Thanks

Answer 1

I'm not totally sure what you are asking, but I noticed your code wasn't correct.
$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'http://test.intra');
$domForm = $crawler->filter('form')->form();
$crawler = $this->client->submit($domForm);
Now you'll be able to check your asserts on $crawler.
$this->assertTrue($this->client->getResponse()->isSuccessful());