Data in textarea is being interpreted as HTML by browser

[Tom Katz]

I've got a JSP that's displaying any/all kinds of file data in a text area. Well, I just ran up against the occurrence where this file might be in xml-format, and it gets interpreted as HTML. What results is the </textarea> tag and everything below it is commented out.

Anyone seen this or know of a way to prevent a textarea from allowing this?

thanks

[Eric Pascarello]

escape your server side code returned from the database. change all of the < to ↦lt; and > to &gt;

Eric

[Tom Katz]

thanks...

I was just trying that with string.replaceAll("<", ">"), etc. Didnt seem to work, better check and make sure I'm doing it right ))

[Tom Katz]

Oops that came out looking wrong because the < was interpreted as html. When I run the replaceAll on the string, it looks the same. Turns out though, removing a valid html comment below the textarea may have fixed this problem. Still got me worried tho...

thanks again

[Ayan Kumar Roy]

Can u please post the code?