HTML Reminder someone

[nightcat]

OK guys I'm stuck again, as usual

I need to put in some text that looks like html tags. I remember there was a tag that means that html stops interpretin anything within it. But don't remember it of the top of my head, and as usual in such cases can't find it anywhere

Does anyone remember it?

[fourdc]

Remark tag
<!-- the remark goes here -->

[nightcat]

Remark tag
<!-- the remark goes here -->

This one stops HTML from showing anything that's within it, But I need it to show the text within it, but not interprete it

[nightcat]

Now the problem seems to be a bit deeper then I originaly thought. I guess I'll have to describe the full situation.

I have a function in PHP that displays text out of DB, it then puts this text in to a hiden variable that posts it to another page.

The code is

echo '<td>' . $error_reason . '<br> <br> <input type="submit" value="Update"> </td>';

for displaying the variable with the text

echo '<input type="hidden" name="error_reason" value="' . $error_reason . '"/>';

for the hiden value

Now whenever going through this code, the browser has problems with the text that got double quote marks in it.

[SirDice]

Are these the functions you were looking for?

htmlspecialchars or htmlentities

[nightcat]

I solved the problem a bit differently, but this one is definately a good one for the future

[JPnyc]

&gt; and &lt;

[xmaddness]

A quick and dirty method of stopping html from being parsed is to enclose it in the following tags:

<XMP>


</XMP>


I don't think its valid, but it works.

-xmaddness

[nebulus200]

Think <pre> </pre> still works too...though its not supported anymore...

[cgkanchi]

Nope, it doesn't. You can have tags inside <pre></pre> and they will be interpreted.

Cheers,
cgkanchi