textarea problem 1

[mufka]

I think this is an HTML problem because it has to do specifically with how a <textarea> tag works. I have php scripts (which include some html) stored in a MySQL table. This is so I can update them and track revisions. I have an update script that pulls the existing script from the table and displays it for editing in a <textarea> box. I've run into a problem when the displayed script contains a textarea box itself. When it gets loaded into the text area for review, the </textarea> tag in the script gets recognized and it closes out the textarea that it is being displayed in.

Is there a way to adjust the <textarea> tag in the script that is displaying the stored script so that it doesn't parse the displayed code, just displays it?

The textarea currently looks like this:

<textarea rows="40" name="script_content" cols="120" ><? echo $script_content; ?></textarea>

 

[vacunita]

Run your $script_contents variable through htmlentities() php function.





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