Re: textarea form input converting &lt; and &gt; to < >

Byron Albert <balbert@internet.com> wrote: > I have a few forms that are used to input html. We have run into a > problem of &lt; and &gt; getting turned into < and > when you hit > submit, Or if you hit submit more than once. I have attached a sample > form. The major problem here is that some times we want &lt; and some > times we want to input html tags. Has any one else run into this problem > maybe even found a solution. when you re-display user input in a textarea (or as the value attribute of a text input field), you should use the htmlentities() function. so, from your code: > <TEXTAREA NAME=test rows=10 cols=50><? echo $test; ?></textarea> should be: > <TEXTAREA NAME=test rows=10 cols=50><? echo htmlentities($test); > ?></textarea> (you could also probably use CDATA sections and avoid calling htmlentities(). i haven't tried it, and am skeptical that the various browsers all get that right. i've never had a problem using htmlentities() in this manner.) jim