How to display < and > in textarea

Francesco Moi

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>$DBrow->text</textarea>
----------

Any suggestion? Thank you very much.

Jul 20 '05 #1

David Dorward

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

Darin McGrew

Francesco Moi <fr**********@europe.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****@stanfordalumni.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