How do you quote, type in a code line an HTML entity code word, such as a "non-breaking-space", and have the code word itself be printed to screen? Instead of the result of that word? (similar to using "& gt;" (NO space in word) for the > bracket; see, I can't even quote that word without putting in a space...)
I believe it will be write like this   (no break space).
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I want to type the following sentence in a markdown file: she says <h1> is large. I can do it in StackOverflow with three backticks around h1, but this doesn't work for a .md file. I've also tried a single backtick, single quote, double quote, hashtags, spacing, <code>h1</code> and everything else I could think of. Is there a way to do this?
You can escape the < characters by replacing them with <, which is the HTML escape sequence for <. You're sentence would then be:
she says <h1> is large
As a side note, the original Markdown "spec" has the following to say:
However, inside Markdown code spans and blocks, angle brackets and ampersands are always encoded automatically. This makes it easy to use Markdown to write about HTML code. (As opposed to raw HTML, which is a terrible format for writing about HTML syntax, because every single < and & in your example code needs to be escaped.)
...which means that, if you're still getting tags when putting them in backticks, whatever renderer you're using isn't "compliant" (to the extent that one can be compliant with that document), and you might want to file a bug.
Generally, you can surround the code in single backticks to automatically escape the characters. Otherwise just use the HTML escapes for < <and > >.
i.e.
she says <h1> is large or she says `<h1>` is large
A backslash (\) can be used to escape < and >.
Ex: she says <h1> is large
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I'm converting linebreaks and extra spaces.
def simple_format_plus(string)
(h(string).gsub(/\n/, '<br/>').gsub(' ', "\t")).html_safe
end
In my views I'm calling:
<p><%= simple_format_plus(post.content) %></p>
However the html output doesn't show the "\t" part. I've even tried disabling the css, but the problem still persists. For some reason I can't display more than one space in succession.
There are 3 spaces instead of 1 in this line .
still displays as:
There are 3 spaces instead of 1 in this line .
If I inspect the <p> element the extra spaces show up in the developer console however, but not in the browser.
tab can't be interpreted in HTML. You can use   for three or the number of times you want. The helper method can be re-written like
def simple_format_plus(string)
(h(string).gsub(/\n/, '<br/>').gsub(' ', "   ")).html_safe
end
Consecutive space characters are interpreted in HTML as a single space. If you want to display each space character as is in the source HTML file, then surround that part with <pre> ... </pre>.
I have a question related to HTML. In order to demonstrate my
simple question, I will use a minimal example.
Consider the following HTML content:
<html>
Foo: Bar
</html>
When you call this in a browser, it displays "Foo: Bar" in
one line. So far so good.
However had, when you do almost the same, and store this:
<html>
Foo
: Bar
</html>
In other words, if you add a newline right before the ':'
character, then suddenly the display becomes this here:
"Foo : Bar"
Now I wonder where from the ' ' comes? Because that character
is not part of the original source.
In HTML a carriage return or line feed in the source code is treated as white space and rendered as a space. Multiple spaces or white space (CR, LF, tabs, etc.) amount to a single white space on the rendered page.
So if you have 50 carriage returns in your source code between Foo and : Bar it will render a one space (Foo : Bar) when th HTML page is displayed in the browser.
From the HTML 4.01 spec: Controlling line breaks.
How would I escape space characters in a JSON string? Basically my problem is that I've gotten into a situation where the program that reads the string can use HTML tags for formatting, but I need to be able to use these HTML tags without adding more spaces to the string. so things like
<u>text</u>
is fine, for adding underline formatting
but something like
<font size="14">text</font>
is not fine, because the <font> tag with the size attribute adds an extra space to the string. I know, funny criteria, but at this point thats what has happened.
My first speculative solution would be to have some kind of \escape character that JSON can put in between font and size that will solve my "space" problems, something that the HTML will ignore but leave the human readable string in the code without actual spaces.
ex. <font\&size="14">text</font>
displays as: text
kind of like but better?
any solutions?
You can use \u0020 to escape the ' ' character in JSON.
I have always used Replace(myString, vbCrLf, "<br/>") to show line breaks when outting something to a page from the database (retaining line breaks). I am now using a DetailsView that has a textarea as one of the fields and uses a LinqDataSource as its datasource. I want to allow users to type line breaks in the textarea and display them on a page (replaced with <br/>'s to show breaks in the HTML). Linq seems to be replacing the line breaks with something else that is now causing the Replace statement to not find the breaks, therefor not inserting the html <br/>. When loading the value from the database to a textarea the line breaks are still there though. I have tried replacing the following with <br> but none of it works.
vbCrLf
vbNewLine
Environment.NewLine
...none of those work... what do I need to find/replace with <br> to show breaks?
TextArea uses different newline characters depending on the browser:
Internet Explorer: \r\n
FireFox: \n
It has also been suggested that \r is used in some cases, although, I haven't come across those cases.
Carriage return is encoded as %0D and Line feed as %0A. So if your text is HTML encoded (as it should be), then you need to replace %0D and/or %0A [depending on your environment] with your <br />
Here is a full discussion on the topic http://www.highdots.com/forums/html/standard-newline-character-264611.html.
Look at the string as a byte array, what values are the line breaks? There are only so many options here, 10, 13, both, none?
This works great for me:
string Output = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(DirtyText); // HTML Encode it first for safety..
return Output.Replace("\n", "<br />"); // Now replace New Lines with HTML BRs
You end up with a safe encoded output, but also nicely formatted line spacing exactly as entered by the user into a standard textarea.