[Phpwm] HTML entities in a text area

[Phil Beynon]

> I'm having problems with displaying HTML code in a text area.
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> If the HTML code contains an entity (é) the textarea decided to
> render it so when the text area is submitted all the entities I
> had in there
> have been converted.
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> Any idea how I can get around this. I suppose I could use
> htmlentities() on
> what I get out of the text area but this would be messing with the users
> HTML after they had approved it so I'm not keen on the idea.
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> Any ideas appreciated.
>

The problem you haven't perhaps realised yet is if you use htmlentities that
when you go into edit that the ; on the end will get re-encoded as an
htmlentity.

Use an <Iframe> which takes HTML and you can read and write to nicely under
javascript

Phil
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