Make HTML code show up on the web

[Bob]

http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/20...how-up-on.html

[Harlan Messinger]

Bob wrote:

http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/20...how-up-on.html

You seem to have missed the built-in solution that exists for this. All
you have to do is substitute "<" (including both the ampersand and
the semicolon) for the less-than ("<") at the beginning of each tag.
Likewise, if you want something like "&lt;" to appear like that on your
page as such instead of as "<", write it as "&amp;lt;" instead. This is
called "escaping" characters that have a special significance when you
want to display them in a non-special way.

[Bob]

I know, but I hate that. I wanted to try something different.

On Apr 15, 4:32 am, Harlan Messinger
<[e-mail]:

Bob wrote:

http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/20...tml-code-show-...

You seem to have missed the built-in solution that exists for this. All
you have to do is substitute "&lt;" (including both the ampersand and
the semicolon) for the less-than ("<") at the beginning of each tag.
Likewise, if you want something like "&lt;" to appear like that on your
page as such instead of as "<", write it as "&amp;lt;" instead. This is
called "escaping" characters that have a special significance when you
want to display them in a non-special way.

[Chris Morris]

Bob <li************@gmail.comwrites:

On Apr 15, 4:32 am, Harlan Messinger
<[e-mail]:

[escape the HTML]

I know, but I hate that. I wanted to try something different.

How do you deal with displaying </textareain HTML code with this
method?

Why do you hate escaping < as &lt; - if it's because it's a pain to
write every time, then use a method for generating the HTML code that
does it automatically.

Escaping also has the advantage that you can do more with the
displayed code. Example:

<p>An image is displayed with &lt;img src="<var>url</var>"
alt="<var>alternative text</var>" <span class="optional">width="<var>w</var>"
height="<var>h</var>"</span>&gt;.</p>

(While not at all necessary, I've also escaped to &gt; in the
displayed code to make it slightly clearer)

--
Chris

[Andy Dingley]

On 15 Apr, 12:07, Bob <[e-mail]:

http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/20...tml-code-show-...

That's not about the web, it's about how to post through Blogspot.

As a web technique, where you have direct control over your markup
(even WYSIWYG), it's inappropriate. Badly so. In fairness to the
original author, that's not what he's suggesting it for anyway.

[Harlan Messinger]

Bob wrote:
[top-posting adjusted]

On Apr 15, 4:32 am, Harlan Messinger
<[e-mail]:

>Bob wrote:

>>http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/20...tml-code-show-...

You seem to have missed the built-in solution that exists for this. All
you have to do is substitute "&lt;" (including both the ampersand and
the semicolon) for the less-than ("<") at the beginning of each tag.
Likewise, if you want something like "&lt;" to appear like that on your
page as such instead of as "<", write it as "&amp;lt;" instead. This is
called "escaping" characters that have a special significance when you
want to display them in a non-special way.

I know, but I hate that. I wanted to try something different.

Please don't top-post, it complicates responses. Please don't
multi-post, I just found myself replying to you again on another
newsgroup before I realized it wasn't the same thread as this one. If
you must, use cross-posting.

As I said in the other location, I don't know why you hate doing it the
built-in, straightforward way and prefer to misrepresent the situation
as a problem to which you couldn't find a solution until you hacked one
out yourself using a complicated work-around with textareas, but that's
your business.

[dorayme]

In article <87************@dinopsis.dur.ac.uk>,
Chris Morris <c.********@durham.ac.ukwrote:

Bob <li************@gmail.comwrites:

On Apr 15, 4:32 am, Harlan Messinger
<[e-mail]:

[escape the HTML]

I know, but I hate that. I wanted to try something different.

How do you deal with displaying </textareain HTML code with this
method?

Why do you hate escaping < as &lt; - if it's because it's a pain to
write every time, then use a method for generating the HTML code that
does it automatically.

In any good text editor you can save a replacement or GREP pattern and
tell the editor to replace all '<' and '>' s with '&lt;' and '&gt;' for
the selected (highlighted) text. Super quick.

--
dorayme

[Jim Moe]

On 04/15/08 04:39 am, Bob wrote:

I know, but I hate that. I wanted to try something different.

That is how it is done. You opinion of its elegance is irrelevant.

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