Re: pop textarea field w/ text incl. quotes

Simon- Thanks for the tip...I trued using the htmlspecialchars() which allowed the remainder of the form to display properly, but left no value in the textarea. Then I noticed a difference in the method I was using compared to yours - I'm still learning the ways of PHP so it will take me a while to determine the significance of the syntax differences: Mine: <td width = "60%"><?php echo $linkurl . '<br><textarea value="htmlspecialchars($linkurl)"></textarea></td>\n' ?> Yours: <?php echo "<textarea>" . htmlspecialchars($link) . "</textarea>" ?> I wanted a graphical representation of the present link displayed above the textarea and then attempted to use php's substitution to build the text area within the same string. I updated my code to be more like yours and arrived at: <?php echo $linkurl . '<br><form>'?><?php echo "<textarea>" . htmlspecialchars($linkurl) . "</textarea>\n"?> which seems to make the parser behave as I intended. Anyway...thanks! -- Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Garner" <sgarner@expio.co.nz> To: "Paul Warner" <pwarner@winners-circle.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] pop textarea field w/ text incl. quotes > > Don't worry about quotes - the problem is that you have HTML markup inside > your <textarea>. You just need to convert < and > to &lt; and &gt;, > respectively, in your link text. The functions htmlspecialchars() or > strip_tags() can do this for you. > > i.e.: > > <? echo "<textarea>" . htmlspecialchars($link) . > "</textarea>" ?> > > When the form is submitted (and when it's viewed), those entities will be > converted back to their real characters automatically by the browser. >