diff --git a/forms/gridfield/GridField.php b/forms/gridfield/GridField.php
index e0414914d..c3f3c6310 100644
--- a/forms/gridfield/GridField.php
+++ b/forms/gridfield/GridField.php
@@ -501,11 +501,14 @@ class GridField extends FormField {
 			$header . "\n" . $footer . "\n" . $body
 		);
 
-		return DBField::create_field('HTMLText', FormField::create_tag(
+		$field = DBField::create_field('HTMLText', FormField::create_tag(
 			'fieldset',
 			$fieldsetAttributes,
 			$content['before'] . $table . $content['after']
 		));
+		$field->setOptions(array('shortcodes' => false));
+
+		return $field;
 	}
 
 	/**