Displaying non html tags in browser

[N Naresh]

Hi i want some help for displaying user defined tags in browser.

i have user defined tags like this <jjj>hhh</jjj><kkk>dd</kkk><b>jjj

but if i use <jjj>hhh</jjj><kkk>dd</kkk><b>jjj

they are displaying in mozilla as <jjj>hhh</jjj><kkk>dd</kkk>jjj(in bold)
as expected.
but my requirement is to display <jjj>hhh</jjj><kkk>dd</kkk> as it is
even if i don't use < and > for user defined tags i need help on this.

[Eric Pascarello]

You want to diplay the < and > characters on the page so it is visible to the user.

So

<foo>asdf</foo> appears as <foo>asdf</foo> and not just asdf?

If that is the case escape your < and > to ∓lt; and &gt;

Eric

[N Naresh]

Hi my problem is to display <jjj>hhh</jjj> as it is in the browser
not just 'hhh' i dont want to use < > why because it is effecting in build html tags such as <b>ddd is not displaying as it is expected i cant loop through all html tags which are exists that makes my code very complicate.

[N Naresh]

&mplt; and > i can't use why because it effects my in build html tags

[Bear Bibeault]

You've posted this in multiple threads. Please stop.

The situation is as simple as this:

Replace angle brackets that you want to appear as-is on the display with the HTML entities &lt; and &gt;.

Leave anfle brackets that you want the browser to interpret as HTML alone.

That's all there is to it.
[ November 06, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[N Naresh]

how we can check for all possible html tags in that string?

[Bear Bibeault]

As was pointed out in another thread, if you are using JSP, you don't have to. Use <c ut> to emit any text that contains characters that need to be converted.