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Valid XHTML inside a textarea

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ca8msm

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What are the best methods for displaying HTML inside a text area, yet still have the page validate to XHTML1.1 strict? For example, say I wanted to do this:
Code: 
<textarea>
<html>
...
</textarea>
That wouldn't validate due to the html tag, but I couldn't use the normal method of encoding the html tag to &lt;html&gt; as that will then display like that inside the textarea.

I assume there is a method I can use (xmp, pre?) but I'm just not sure of what would be the recommended method.

Thanks,
Mark


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Basically, what you have there is an overzealous validation system. Stuff inside a textarea should not and would not need to be validated since its not part of the HTML of the page.
But the validator doesn't know that.

I'm not sure there is anything you can do, short of changing the validation service to ignore textarea contents.






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I suppose there is the option of a custom dtd but that seems like complete overkill to me and I would have thought there would be a simpler solution.


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me said:
I couldn't use the normal method of encoding the html tag to &lt;html&gt; as that will then display like that inside the textarea
Click to expand...
I could have sworn that I saw that behaviour before, but revisiting it again it appears that isn't the case and if I encode the values then it is still displayed correctly [ponder]

Oh, well...


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