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Hello.

I designed a form to edit some DataBase's fields. But some
of these fields contain '<' and '>' characters. And
these characters are '<' and '>' in HTML.

So if want to edit these fields, the form converts them
into '<' and '>'. And I want to mantain '&lt;' and '&gt;'

Mi piece of code:
----------
<textarea name=mytext rows=14 cols=60 wrap=virtual>$D Brow->text</textarea>
----------

Any suggestion? Thank you very much.
Jul 20 '05 #1
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Francesco Moi wrote:
I designed a form to edit some DataBase's fields. But some
of these fields contain '&lt;' and '&gt;' characters. And
these characters are '<' and '>' in HTML.

So if want to edit these fields, the form converts them
into '<' and '>'. And I want to mantain '&lt;' and '&gt;'


Use &amp; for &.
--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Jul 20 '05 #2
Francesco Moi <fr**********@e urope.com> wrote:
I designed a form to edit some DataBase's fields. But some
of these fields contain '&lt;' and '&gt;' characters. And
these characters are '<' and '>' in HTML.

So if want to edit these fields, the form converts them
into '<' and '>'. And I want to mantain '&lt;' and '&gt;'


You need to escape the ampersands as &amp; like this:

&lt; becomes &amp;lt;
&gt; becomes &amp;gt;
--
Darin McGrew, mc****@stanford alumni.org, http://www.rahul.net/mcgrew/
Web Design Group, da***@htmlhelp. com, http://www.HTMLHelp.com/

"It said 'Insert disk #3', but only two will fit..."
Jul 20 '05 #3

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