Hot to output HTML Source Code

[Martin Ernst]

Hello.

I want to show HTML source code in my browser (for debugging
purposes). Which tag/formatting di i have to use to tell the browser
not to render the code but display it as pure text?

E.g.

I want
<p>Hello World</p>
to be displayed in the browser.

I have tested <code><p>Hell o world</p></code>, but that doesn't work.

Waht can I do? Thanks in advance
Martin

[Martin Honnen]

Martin Ernst wrote:

I want to show HTML source code in my browser (for debugging
purposes). Which tag/formatting di i have to use to tell the browser
not to render the code but display it as pure text?

E.g.

I want
<p>Hello World</p>
to be displayed in the browser.

I have tested <code><p>Hell o world</p></code>, but that doesn't work.

Waht can I do? Thanks in advance

Escape the tag characters < and >, as in
&lt;p&gt;A paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Steve Pugh]

Martin Ernst <m.*****@connec t-wa.de> wrote:

I want to show HTML source code in my browser (for debugging
purposes). Which tag/formatting di i have to use to tell the browser
not to render the code but display it as pure text?
If you want the whole page to be seen as code then you can configure
your server to serve it as text/plain rather than text/html. However,
IE will still parse it as HTML; better browsers will display it as
plain text.
I want
<p>Hello World</p>
to be displayed in the browser.

I have tested <code><p>Hell o world</p></code>, but that doesn't work.

That tells the browser that the enclosed content is code, which is a
good thing. However, it doesn't tell the browser tos top parsing it
for HTML tags.

You need to convert all the isntances of < to &lt;
In some cases you also need to convert > to &gt; and wether you do so
in all cases is up to you.

&lt;p&gt;Hel lo World&lt;/p&gt;

(You'll also need to convert & to &amp; so that &copy; would be
&amp;copy; and would be displayed as &copy; rather than as teh
copyright symbol.)

There's also the very old, <xmp></xmp> element but that's been
obsolete since HTML 2, isn't supported by all browsers and really can
not be recommended.

Steve

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[Martin Ernst]

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net > schrieb:

You need to convert all the isntances of < to &lt;
In some cases you also need to convert > to &gt; and wether you do so
in all cases is up to you.

&lt;p&gt;Hel lo World&lt;/p&gt;

As it seems, I have no choice. Thanks for your answers.

Martin

[Owen Jacobson]

Martin Ernst wrote:

Hello.

I want to show HTML source code in my browser (for debugging
purposes). Which tag/formatting di i have to use to tell the browser
not to render the code but display it as pure text?

Replace the < and > characters with their respective entities (&lt; and
&gt;).

[Karsten Tholema]

Martin Ernst wrote:

Hello.

I want to show HTML source code in my browser (for debugging
purposes). Which tag/formatting di i have to use to tell the browser
not to render the code but display it as pure text?

E.g.

I want
<p>Hello World</p>
to be displayed in the browser.

I have tested <code><p>Hell o world</p></code>, but that doesn't work.

Do you have PHP ?

then you could use:

<?php
echo htmlentities(<p >Hello World</p>);
?>

should work...

[Jim Dabell]

Karsten Tholema wrote:

[snip]

<?php
echo htmlentities(<p >Hello World</p>);
?>

Getting a bit OT here now, but that should be:

<?php
echo htmlentities('< p>Hello World</p>');
?>
--
Jim Dabell

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Martin Ernst <m.*****@connec t-wa.de> wrote:

I want to show HTML source code in my browser (for debugging
purposes).

What debugging? Which software would you debug that way?

(Just a rhetoric question. Usually people ask the question when they wish to
tell others which HTML code they should use. But it would be reasonable to
expect you to know HTML yourself before trying to teach it to others.)

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Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

[Harlan Messinger]

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Hello.

I want to show HTML source code in my browser (for debugging
purposes). Which tag/formatting di i have to use to tell the browser
not to render the code but display it as pure text?
Why don't you just use View Source or equivalent command?

E.g.

I want
<p>Hello World</p>
to be displayed in the browser.

I have tested <code><p>Hell o world</p></code>, but that doesn't work.

Waht can I do? Thanks in advance
Martin