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how to display "<"'s in html

Dell Boy · 2003-04-29 09:55:27

I have a javascript populating a table with text from a database. Some of the text strings have the symbols < and > in them and consequently do not display in a browser. eg the string below, "hello world<Paddy>" displays as just "hello world". Does the browser interpret Paddy as an invalid html tag and just ignores it? How…

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29-04-2003 10:55am

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Dell Boy

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I have a javascript populating a table with text from a database. Some of the text strings have the symbols < and > in them and consequently do not display in a browser. eg the string below, "hello world<Paddy>" displays as just "hello world". Does the browser interpret Paddy as an invalid html tag and just ignores it?

How can I display the brackets?

<td>hello world <Paddy></td>

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#2 29-04-2003 11:06am
davej

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Use the <pre> </pre> tags around anything you want as a literal.

davej

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#3 29-04-2003 11:07am
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hello world <Paddy>
HTML Special Entities

adam

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#4 29-04-2003 1:53pm
amen

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if you are using aps
u could use server.htmlencode(text)
which would do it for you

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