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Do not support HTML in textarea

Hi,
I have a textarea and I would like to prevent users from inserting
HTML tags. Only plain text is supported.
Which client-side js regular expression is best for this?
Thanks, Gabi

Oct 24 '07 #1
1 2012
On Oct 24, 11:59 am, Gabriella <frohlin...@yah oo.comwrote:
I have a textarea and I would like to prevent users from
inserting HTML tags. Only plain text is supported.
Which client-side js regular expression is best for this?
None. Client side JS can't prevent them from entering anything.

And are you certain they won't want to insert things that look like
tags but are actually text?

Just do the usual replacement of &->&amp;, >->&gt;, <->&lt; server
side and HTML injection will be defeated.

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