Google fail, I used to know what it was years ago...
Basically would make <theTag><img src='cat.jpg'/></theTag> render as <img src='cat.jpg'/> rather than actually displaying the image...
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The tag is <xmp>, but it's deprecated.
A better way to go is to replace < and > with < and >, respectively. Also, & with &, and you should be perfectly safe.
David Hedlund
2009-11-23 12:34:09
Well, it was over 10 years ago that I learned it ;D Thanks for your reply.
SLC
2009-11-23 12:35:25
Man you guys are fast!!!! Haha.. +1
o.k.w
2009-11-23 12:35:49
It was deprecated in 1997 (if not before).
David Dorward
2009-11-23 12:36:35
Shh, you make me feel old ;(
SLC
2009-11-23 12:47:21
@SLC: At least you've forgot about it and moved on. I don't know how the rest of us can defend remembering stuff that hasn't been approved of since before HTML 4 =)
David Hedlund
2009-11-23 13:48:13
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You’re probably talking about CDATA sections?
<![CDATA[<img src='cat.jpg'/>]]>
Be careful though, this doesn’t work very well in some browsers. Plus, I think it doesn’t exist in HTML, only in XML. It exists in HTML but browser support is not reliable. It’s better to just escape everything.
Konrad Rudolph
2009-11-23 12:34:29
CDATA marked sections are part of SGML and thus part of HTML too — it's just that nothing supports it.
David Dorward
2009-11-23 12:37:42
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What about <pre>? As far as I understand it's made exactly for these cases.
Pekka
2009-11-23 12:57:22
Nope, it doesn't. It preserves formatting (such as multiple spaces), but it doesn't ignore HTML tags.
David Hedlund
2009-11-23 13:08:58
To get `<span>this is a span</span>` within a `<pre>` you need this: `<pre><span>this is a span</span></pre>`
o.k.w
2009-11-23 13:17:15
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i think you are looking for the <xmp> tag but that is nowhere near valid HTML anymore :)
ChrisR
2009-11-23 13:00:29