Does > really need to be converted into an HTML entity? [duplicate] - html

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I am wondering if the symbol > always needs to be converted into >, if the input is coming from a user? I could understand that < (<) would need to, since the next characters could be interpreted as HTML, but what harm could > have?

It depends what you are going to do with the data. If you're going to render it to a page, it should be HTML-escaped (meaning converted to >). If you're doing pretty much anything else then it should not.

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What is regarded as best practice when writing HTML, double or single quotes around attribute values, upper- or lower-case attribute names?
Best practice is to use a tool like prettier https://prettier.io
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I have a pattern that I am using and it does everything I need it to except for it does not allow for an 10 digit phone number and not all UK numbers are 11 digits, for example, 01932 783433 is allowed and valid but 01932 78383 is also valid but not allowed;
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User is allowed to enter all the alphabets and numbers but when the special-characters are entered then it shouldn't be entered in the the text box.
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#Shashank has a valid point of view. What you want to do is disable the entry of special characters from the backend, as well as render the field invalid from the frontend. A hacker knowing what they're doing would easily manipulate the HTTP Request itself rather than the field, making it pretty vulnerable.
However, if you insist on your solution, I would recommend using RegEx. This sample expression might come in handy. That way, whenever the input field detects one of these special characters, it would replace that character with a ''

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I'm currently creating a website and I need to show an example of code on the page. simply putting it within a p obviously doesn't work, as the tags do not display. Is there anyway to get them to display on the webpage?
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You can also look at tools like SyntaxHighlighter if you want your code to be more readable.