Sunday, March 6, 2011

How to escape everything in a block in HTML

I seem to recall that there is an HTML tag that escapes absolutely everything inside it except the matching closing tag. Kind of like <plaintext> but not fundamentally broken.

From stackoverflow

  • <xmp> is the tag you are looking for:

    <xmp>some stuff <tags></tags> too</xmp>

    But, since it's depricated, the best you can get is <pre>.

    Software Monkey : Sweet! I've been wanting a tag like this!
    Ken Paul : is deprecated -- it should not be used. See http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_XMP.html. </div> </div> </li> <li class="p_ans_l"> <p>There is also the XML <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_cdata.asp" rel="nofollow">CDATA</a>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;![CDATA[stuff that is &lt;tag&gt;never&lt;/tag&gt; parsed]]&gt; </code></pre> <p>Whether this works in an HTML document is probably up to the browser. However, it should certainly work in an XHTML document.</p> <div class="p_comment"> <div class="p_a_com"> <span>nickf :</span> i just tried it in Firefox 3 and it didn't work. </div> </div> </li> <li class="p_ans_l"> <p>You need to use <code>&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; ... &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</code>. </p> <p><code>&lt;xmp&gt;</code> is deprecated and should not be used. See <a href="http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_XMP.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_XMP.html</a>.</p> <div class="p_comment"> <div class="p_a_com"> <span>Mohit Nanda :</span> Neither does <pre>, nor does <code> escapes '<' or '>' :( </div> <div class="p_a_com"> <span>BCS :</span> Ditto Mohit. just tested that with a html document in side <pre><code>, FF2 gave a blank screen </div> <div class="p_a_com"> <span>BCS :</span> http://www.htmlref.com/Reference/AppA/tag_xmp.htm seems that it works most places (and what better can you get with HTML anyway?) </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn'>Mu Cat</span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://codeanswer30.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-escape-everything-in-block-in.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent 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