Escaping html tags in html mail

[JNameNotTaken]

Hello All

New problem today. Any help would be great, thanks.

I have a form that takes text from a user in a Text Area and sends it as part of the body of a html mail.

Firstly, I replace all the \n's with <BR>'s on the text from the text area as so:

$detailsBR = $details;
$detailsBR =~ s/\n/<BR>/g;

All is well.

However if a user enters a html tag e.g. <object> in the text, the rendered email stops right there before the <. i.e. characters are missing.
I can only assume it's because a corresponding </object> or whatever tag is expected. If I manually provide a corresponding closing tag it resolves the issue but obviously the text "<object>" is missing.

Is their any easy way to fix this? I looked into URI::Escape; but it adds padding for spaces and stuff like that which is not what I need.

Any ideas how to escape html from the mail?

Oh, and putting <code> </code> tags around the text did not work for some reason. Perhaps the email recipient renderer does not recognize the code tag? (no idea!)

Thanks Very Much

 

[JNameNotTaken]

ok here is how it's done/fixed:

use CGI qw/:standard/;
my $HTMLEscapedText = escapeHTML( $htmlText );

Bye.