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If anyone knows what tags should be used to display HTML tags with the text we write - in another word, the tags that can display other HTML tags in a browser?
Thank you in advance.
Regards
SanHTM
This will actually be a combination of two elements and some escaping. To start off with you'd want to set up the following code:
<pre>
<code>
YOUR CODE HERE
</code>
</pre>This says that you want you whitespace to remain as written (<pre>) - important for computer code. The <code> element is a semantic definition that states that the text inside it is computer code.
If you do just this you'll find that your HTML is still rendered by the browser though. The fix for this is to escape the angle brackets that encompass your tags. This is pretty simple: replace a < symbol with < and a > symbol with >. Your code will then show up inside your page.
[edited by: Robin_reala at 6:04 pm (utc) on Feb. 1, 2007]
<pre></pre> - is used just for recognising the white space
<code></code> - is used just to identify these are the starts of computer codes, etc.
I appreciate help from everyone.
Cheers
Here is an example of Robin_reala's suggestion...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><style type="text/css">
#container {
width:600px;
height:200px;
border:1px solid #000;
font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;
font-size:14px;
overflow:auto;
}
</style></head>
<body><div id="container">
<pre>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><style type="text/css">
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
</script>
</head>
<body><div></div>
</body>
</html></pre>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<p>
To create a paragraph, surround your paragraph with <p> and </p>.
</p>
This would then output this when viewed in a browser:
To create a paragraph, surround your paragraph with <p> and </p>.
You can find the entire list of entities in the HTML spec. [w3.org]
[edited by: encyclo at 8:38 pm (utc) on Feb. 1, 2007]
[edit reason] spliced from duplicate thread [/edit]
I do appreciate help from all of you.
Cheers
<textarea>
<html><body></body></html>
</textarea>
Of course you can style the textarea however you like to display the code.
Any more advice is very appreciated.
Cheers
You can try using
XMP[b]<xmp>[/b] ... your HTML here ... [b]</xmp>[/b]I believe Firefox (Mozilla) still recognizes the
XMPXMPW3C reference for
(HTML 2.0) [w3.org]
XMP
You answer my question. Great help. But I never hear of this tags:
<xmp></xmp>
where did you get it from?
Do you know any other similar HTML tags to the above which can display HTML tags in the browser?
appreciate your great help.
Cheers
XMPXMPtextarea
Or can we use the server-scripting languages to do that without writing entity names?
Cheers
Or can we use the server-scripting languages to do that without writing entity names?
Server-side technologies are a possibility. For example, PHP has its htmlentities [us2.php.net] function.
there must be a new HTML tag
There maybe should be one, but there isn't.
Of course if you have access to a server-side scripting language you can use it to escape the HTML and convert it to the entities, as mentioned above.
If you have any other options that could be easier than php scripting?
Cheers
If there any VB codes used inline
along HTML to display HTML tags in the browser?
Cheers
<%
text2display = "<p><b><i>my text</i></b></p>"
text2display = replace(text2display,"<","<")
text2display = replace(text2display,">",">")
response.write( text2display )
%>
then if you have named or numeric entities in your html you will see them as such rather than as rendered by the browser.
it will also prevent "accidental" entities, for example the following "pure text" string:
drums&sticks;guitar&piano;...
(which the browser would render as: drums&sticks;guitar&piano;...)
