Outputting htmlspecialchars ...

[dbeezzz]

I'm outputting a page of html as a value for in an <input tag

<div><input type="hidden" id="editor1" name="editor1" value=
"&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN&quot;&gt;
&lt;html&gt; ... "

I need to serve up the page as htmlentities in order to fit it into the value part of my <input>.

Unfortunately though, serving up the <img src="" part doesn't work as <img src=&quot;&quot;

Is there any way around this from a html perspective ?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

How doesn't it work? Do you not see the "img src" text in the input?

That aside, you should serve "<img" as "&lt;img" if it is part of an attribute value - which it is, in this case, if I've understood correctly.

Hope this helps,
Dan

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[dbeezzz]

thanks dan,

I should have been clearer ... my image tags are output like this

 <img src=&quot;Templates/Classic/images/line.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;7&quot;
 width=&quot;202&quot;>
      <br>

... the width/height atrributes are fine, it's just that the image itself isn't rendered on the page.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I'm outputting a page of html [gray](...)[/gray]

This means, outputting to stdout by a CGI script ?

Feherke.

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[ChrisHunt]

You could try using single quotes instead of &quot;s:

<input type="hidden" id="editor1" name="editor1" value=" ... &lt;img src='Templates/Classic/images/line.jpg' alt='' border='0' height='7' width='202'&gt; ... ">

What are you actually trying to do? Squeezing a whole page of HTML into a hidden <input> seems quite strange.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

If the IMG tag is part of the input elements value attribute (as you imply), then what I said still stands - "<img" should be "&lt;img".

Dan



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[dbeezzz]

Ya thanks guys,

It was a bit strange and to be honest I still am not fully sure of exactly what's going on. Basically I'm combining a php templating system with the FCKEditor.

So my html is going through a couple of loops and then is being output to the editor page. I've got it sorted now though, thanks anyway.