how to show <html> in textarea

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posted Oct 24, 2021 in Technique[技术] by 深蓝 (71.8m points)

In textarea, I load text from database and then show in textarea. I have a problem, textarea not show < and >. It has been changed to < and > .

<textarea>&gt;html&gt;</textarea>

in textarea , change to . I want to show <html> , how to make it ?

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深蓝 · Answer 1 · 2021-10-23T21:39:39+0000

Escape the & by using &.

Change this:

<textarea>&lt;html&gt;</textarea>

To this:

<textarea>&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;</textarea>

If you're using PHP you can automatically do this with htmlspecialchars().