[thelist] Escaping "</textarea>"
Tab Alleman
Tab.Alleman at MetroGuide.com
Mon Dec 22 15:50:37 CST 2003
Tab Alleman wrote:
> Damien COLA wrote:
>> there's always a way ;-)
>> use HTML entities/characters
>> I don't know what is the code for < and / and > but you can google
>> for it easily.
>
> I was afraid they wouldn't work inside a textarea... I don't want the
> textarea to display "</textarea>" after all. I *need* it to
> display "</textarea>"...I'll try it though.
It worked...I'll be dammed.
Now of course, this begs the question how would I get a textarea to
contain "<" as a literal string of characters and not have it display
a "<", but I don't want rocks thrown at me, so I won't ask. : )
(actually, I suppose "&lt;" would do it, huh? What a PITA...lol)
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