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list of sybmols like to display > on html page &gt and which are others

i am making an application.

the user can give description and that description is stored in
database and then the description is shown on html page.

suppose the user has written "<b>hello</b>" in description then in the
database the following will be stored "<b>hello</b>" but when i display
it on database the hello in bold letter will be displayed.

i know the soultion that i have to replace the occurrences of < with
&lt and occurrences of > with &gt but i don't know that which are other
symbols which needs some repair like above so please give me a list of
html symbols and their equivalent symbol

if u can sugges some site then also i m ready

thxs for help

Jul 17 '05 #1
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vishal <vi************@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
i know the soultion that i have to replace the occurrences of < with
&lt and occurrences of > with &gt but i don't know that which are other
symbols which needs some repair like above so please give me a list of
html symbols and their equivalent symbol
http://nl2.php.net/htmlspecial_chars sais it all.
if u can sugges some site then also i m ready


You could read the html (4.01) specs at w3.org, it's not that big :)

Jul 17 '05 #2

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