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+2  Q: 

how to show <html> in textarea

In textarea, I load text from database and then show in textarea. I have a problem, textarea not show &lt; and &gt;. It has been changed to < and > .

<textarea>&gt;html&gt;</textarea>

in textarea , change to . I want to show &lt;html&gt; , how to make it ?

+6  A: 

Escape the & by using &amp;.

Change this:

<textarea>&lt;html&gt;</textarea>

To this:

<textarea>&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;</textarea>

If you're using PHP you can automatically do this with htmlspecialchars().

Delan Azabani  2010-06-09 05:56:05

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