disable html tag processing? 2

[Cocheez]

Is there a way to disable html tag processing by say using a tag the is designed to do so? For example :

<disableHtmlProcessing>
<b>Hello</b>
<disableHtmlProcessing>

Would Display :
<b>Hello</b>

Rather than the bold text 'Hello'.

-MattU

 

[Boomerang]

Hi MattU,

Yes there is:

<xmp>
<b>Hello</b>
</xmp>

Erik

 

[jewel464g]

Would this same kind of thing work for Javascript also, or is there a different tag for that?

 

[Boomerang]

Hi jewel,

It depends of what you want (I can't figure out).

These 2 examples works in javascript:

first example (shows only <b>Hello</b>)
<script language=javascript>
var exp;

exp = 'your text';
exp = exp + '<br>';
exp = exp + '<xmp><b>Hello</b></xmp><br>';
exp = exp + 'continue text';

document.write(exp)
</script>

second example (shows all the javascript code)
<xmp>
<script language=javascript>
var exp

exp = 'your text'
exp = exp + '<br>'
exp = exp + '<b>Hello</b><br>'
exp = exp + 'continue text'

document.write(exp);
</script>
</xmp>

If this is not what you mean, just post more details.

Erik

 

[jewel464g]

The second example was what I was asking about, thanks a lot.

Jewel

 

[Cocheez]

Thanks, that is perfect. Just so I can do better research in the future, where did you find that tag? I searched W3C's HTML DTD's for something similar and found nothing. Also I just looked for <xmp> in there and that does not exists either. I would love to get your reference source.

-MattU

 

[Boomerang]

Hi MattU,

It's from a book &quot;Using HTML4, fourth edition, by Lee Anne Phillips, --Que Corporation--&quot;

But this book is very less from complete It's NOT a complete reference at all.
It'was my first HTML book I bought.

Somewhere on the net I read a reference where they said the <xmp> tag is old, so I don't know if new browsers will support it. I use (IE4.0 and NN4.73)

So please let me know in wich new browsers you can test if it works? (please other members , let me know to)

Erik

 

[jewel464g]

Works great in IE 5 and NE 6 and 4.78

Jewel

 

[Cocheez]

Works in IE 6 also. Thanks again !!

-MattU

 

[Arion23]

Hi all,

Just thought I'd throw some info your way, as I found the posts and thread interesting (and useful).

* the XMP tag was defined prior to HTML 2.0 (not sure when) so that marked text &quot;could contain any ISO Latin printable characters, including the tag opener, so long as it does not contain the closing tag in full.&quot;,
but was marked as obsolete sometime in 1995 (

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/1995-archive/NonStandard.html#8)

* All the info I could find on the XMP tag indicates that PRE should be used instead - &quot;a number of unfortunate interactions with processing techniques and tends to be used and implemented inconsistently.&quot;

I tried out the PRE tags with Boomerangs examples, but didn't acheive the same effect.

I know its not a contribution to the solution, just thought some of you might be interested in a bit of history

Enjoy...