[phplib] ">" in frozen textarea box From: Mikhail Avrekh (mavrekh <email protected>)
Date: 07/19/01

This is perhaps marginally related to PHPLIB, but I hope someone on this
list have had some experience with a similar problem.

I have a bunch of forms using the oohforms class. One of the forms is full
of <textarea> elements, into which a user may paste potentially huge
blocks of text to save in the database. I also need to display this form
with the saved text either in an updateable format or in a read-only
("frozen") format depending on the privs etc.

The problem is with the "frozen" form. If a user enters something like
"a > b" into the box, this completely screws up the read-only form. The
HTML then looks roughly like this:

<hidden name=myverylongvar value='blahblahblah forever a > b more blah'>
<table border=1><tr><td>
blahblahblah forever a > b more blah
</td></tr></table>

...which seems fine, except the browser appears to treat that ">" as a
closing tag, so " b more blah", which can be quite long, pops up in plain
text directly above the box with the text. The user freaks out. The
developer doesn't know how to escape that ">". Any suggestions ?

Thanks !

M. 

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