I am trying to get an HTML entity to display to the page without showing up as the symbol it represents. EX: I want to have < show up on the screen instead of <. I am doing this inside of a code window that I created on my page to show how HTML entities are used in the code itself. Is there a way that I can do this in HTML and if so how would I go about doing this?
<pre> <code> < </code> </pre>
To display HTML entities on a page, you can use the &# notation followed by the entity's numerical code. For example, to display the 'less than' (<) symbol on a page, you would use the code <. If you are including the code inside of a code window, you may need to use HTML character entities in order to prevent the browser from interpreting the code as a tag. For example, you would use < to display the 'less than' symbol.
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I have a code that saves (html code) plus (some text) in mysql from textarea.
I then take the text from the mysql and display it under the textarea. The thing is if I save the code
<div style="color:red">Hello</div>
in mysql and then display it, I see Hello in red, but I want to see the actual
<div style="color:red">Hello</div>
to appear under the textarea. I hope you understand my problem.
so when you've grabbed the data from the database you want to actually display the html, rather than the page rendering the html?
if so just use the php function htmlentities();
You can use the xmp element, see What was the tag used for. It has been in HTML since the beginning and is supported by all browsers. Specifications frown upon it, but HTML5 CR still describes it and requires browsers to support it (though it also tells authors not to use it, but it cannot really prevent you).
Everything inside xmp is taken as such, no markup (tags or character references) is recognized there, except, for apparent reason, the end tag of the element itself, .
Otherwise xmp is rendered like pre.
When using “real XHTML”, i.e. XHTML served with an XML media type (which is rare), the special parsing rules do not apply, so xmp is treated like pre. But in “real XHTML”, you can use a CDATA section, which implies similar parsing rules. It has no special formatting, so you would probably want to wrap it inside a pre element:
<![CDATA[
This is a demo, tags will
appear literally.
<div style="color:red">Hello</div>
]]>
you can refer this ans : https://stackoverflow.com/a/16785992/3000179
If you want to do on browser level, you can follow the steps :
Replace the & character with &
Replace the < character with <
Replace the > character with >
Optionally surround your HTML sample with <pre> and/or <code>
tags.
Hope this helps.
I am assisting on a project right now and building out templates for the first time, trying to wrap my head around a few things but one aspect of the html that's confusing me are certain things sitting in square brackets. I've never used these in html before so I'm just wondering what they are for (when I open the page in a browser they all show up as text)
Here's a bit of the code:
<div class="container">
[HASBREADCRUMBS]
<ol class="nav-breadcrumb">
[BREADCRUMBS]
</ol>
[/HASBREADCRUMBS]
<h1 class="header-title" style="color:[TITLECOLOR];font-size:[TITLESIZE];">[TITLE]</h1>
</div>
It's using some templating engine and the whole page is parsed before getting output to the browser. During parsing, those square bracket tags work as something else (depending on the templating engine used).
So, for example, [HASBREADCRUMBS] and [/HASBREADCRUMBS] could denote a piece of code that might be similar to:
if (breadcrumbs) {
and:
} // closed if
and for each value of the breadcrumbs object (whatever it might be) one ordered HTML list is rendered with the breadcrumb value as its content ([BREADCRUMBS]).
So in short: it's not HTML, that part of the file never reaches the browser but is converted into proper HTML (based on conditions, can also use loops, etc.) before rendering.
The square brackets have nothing to do with HTML. They probably belong to the template and will be replaced by actual value from the template engine.
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I know it is possible because this website does it, but I tried researching how and just got a bunch of junk, so how do I add tags to a website paragraph without the browser interpreting it as code.
For example, if I have <p><div></div></p>, I want the div to display in the browser as text not have the browser interpret it as html. Is this complicated to do?
I have been writing tutorials for school, and it would be much easier if I could add the code directly to the webpage in text form instead of images, so students can copy and paste it.
Look at how this website itself achieves this:
<p>For example, if I have <code><p><div></div></p></code>, I want the div to display in the browser as text not have the browser interpret it as html. Is this complicated to do?</p>
You need to replace the < and > with their HTML character entities.
There are many ways to use:
Replace < with <
`<h1>This is heading </small></h1>`
Place the code inside </xmp><xmp> tags
<xmp>
<ul>
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
</ul>
</xmp>
I do not recommend other ways because they do not work on all browsers like <plaintext> or <listing>.
You want to look into something called HTML Entities.
If you want the < character to appear on a website, for example, you can write this HTML code: <. These are the five basic HTML Entities and their source code equivalents:
< <
> >
" "
' '
& &
If you are using a programming language (such as PHP or ASP.NET), then there is probably a built-in command that will do the conversion for you (htmlspecialchars() and Server.HtmlEncode, respectively).
Use the tag <PRE> before a block of reformatted text and </PRE> after.
The text between these tags is rendered as monospaced characters with line breaks and spaces at the same points as in the original file. This may be helpful for rendering poetry without adding a lot of HTML code. Try this:
Mary had a little lamb.
Its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went
the lamb was sure to go.
To add plain text code in a webpage, HTML Character Escaping is needed on five characters:
< as <> as >& as &' as '" as "
(OR)
<xmp> tag may also be used as an alternate, this tag disturbs the style and is obsolete.
<xmp>Code with HTML Tags like <div> etc. </xmp>
Use the html entity/special character of the tag, such as < (for less than)
<p> in html -> <p> in browser
You could also write <p> since there is no ambiguity about the opening tag.
Many languages have built in methods to convert HTML special characters such as php's htmlspecialchars
You need to escape the HTML tags, namely the less-than sign. Write it as < and it will appear as < on the HTML page.
Your html needs to not be in tags. If you use the <> tags you will have it converted into code not text, if I was to write <br> in the middle of a sentence then it would do this You will need to Write the code in code so to speak, using the < > (< >)
and then you get what you need.
I just discovered a much simpler solution at CSS-Tricks...
Just have your outer-most wrapper be a 'pre' tag, followed by a 'code' tag, then inside the code tag put your code in paranthesis.
The simplest way to do it without having to reformat your text using entities is to use JQuery.
<div id="container"></div>
<script>
$('#container').text("<div><h1>Hello!</h1><p>I like you.</p></div>");
</script>
If you then do alert($('#container').prop('innerHTML'));, you get <div><h1>Hello!</h1><p>I like you.</p></div>
How useful that technique is depends somewhat on where your material is coming from.
Use iframe and txt file:
<iframe src="html.txt"></iframe>
What tag can I use to prevent any interpretation? I need that because I need to write down some source code and it's result in blogger. I have this code in blogspot, but the code inside the <pre> is processed
The code is as follows:
<pre class='prettyprint'>
$latex \displaystyle S(n)=\sum_{k=1}^{n}{\frac{1}{T_{k}}=\sum_{k=1}^{n}{\frac{6}{k(k+1)(k+2)}$
</pre>
This is the result:
$latex \displaystyle S(n)=\sum_{k=1}^{n}{\frac{1}{T_{k}}=\sum_{k=1}^{n}{\frac{6}{k(k+1)(k+2)}$
When I can replace '$' in <pre> with something equivalent, I could avoid this issue.
I tried <code> and <pre>, but they all interpret the content.
ADDED
I'm trying to use the javascript code found in this post.
If I understand correctly, you are using Replacemath, and its documentation says: “Should you need to to prevent certain $ signs from triggering LaTeX rendering, replace $ with the equivalent HTML <span>$</span> or $, or put the code inside a <pre> or <code> block if appropriate.” Of these, the first method seems to actually work.
That is, replace all occurrences of “$” inside the pre element by <span>$</span>.
I tested this by publishing a test in my blog (which had been dormant for 6 years...). I had to manually break the pre block to fit into the column.
Yes, I am struggling with displaying data from our database that CONTAINS markup! One particular field I am displaying has an open-bold tag but no close bold tag. I am trying to 'contain' this markup so it doesn't affect the rest of the page.
The data coming from my database is like this text:
this is soem nasty <b>data
(note the lack of a closing < /b > tag)
If I enclose the markup in a div, the rest of the page is bold:
<div>this is some nasty <b>data</div>
However if I wrap it in a table like this:
<table><tr><td>this is some nasty <b>data</td></tr></table>
All is well! In fact, the DOM inspector for both FF (FireBug) and IE9 show the tree. In the div-case, it shows the open-b tag and the rest of the document contained within it. But the table seems to enclose it.
How can I get this to 'close the b' without a table?
You use a closing </b> tag properly, like any sane human being.
You can use DOMDocument and tidy to try and fix the malformed markup in case you have no control over it, but it's best if you could fix it before it got to your database.
I've read somewhere that HTML Purifier should be able to achieve this. Might be worth trying.
I took a cue from HTML rich-text editors like TinyMCE and built up an IFrame. It seems to contain the arbitrary, possibly-mal-formed content better.