Hiding html code on a webpage??

if i want to show someone a code on a webpage, how do i disable the code so it won't post as the code but will actully show the written code? Thanks

 

you need to convert it to it's char value.
in ASP it's
response.write Server.HTMLENCODE("MyHtmlCodeVariable")

 

I think he/she's asking for something a little simpler. You can use the <xmp> tag to prevent the code from being executed and just display it as text instead. Just put the tag before the code you want to display, and close it with </xmp>.

 

xmp is an obsolete HTML tag.

 

Or, have it echo it out with javascript :

document.body.innerText = "<h1>blaa</h1>";

the easiest way to do that would be make a div

Code:

<div id="htmlcode"></div>

and then write it into it using javascript

Code:

<script>
document.getElementById("htmlcode").innerText = "<h1>some html code</h1>";
</script>

 

That wouldnt work. Sorry

 

Doug, the <xml> tags worked, thanks a lot, I wasnt aware of that tag, I was thinking of $lt; tags at first, but that one worked. Oh and I am a she btw;-)

 

Mozilla doesn't think so.

 

just to warn you, it's a depricated tag and is being phased out. You're safe for now, but it's unwise to rely on deprecated tags. Think "future proof".

 

thanks, that's good to know, it's also probably why I never heard of it. Is there another tag that will do the samething, without using all the javascripting?

 

Bascialy : no. the w3c is trying to make html less of a "do it all" and leave the complicated stuff up to the scripting/stylesheet languages. e.g. there are a few properties which HTMl doesnt support any more, but CSS does.

The easiest thing to do would be to have it done server side, as Kodo says, with HTMLEncode or whatever.