Can you?

Anon

Can you give me an example code to display html in a textarea form?

Anyone?

crusty_php

Anon

<textarea name=\"whatever\" cols=60 rows=4>this is <b>HTML</b>code

Anon

lol

no I mean I have store an html in a buffer using ob_start, ob_get_content.

I want to use php and html both.
<?php
some php code.....
echo "<textarea name=\"kik\" cols=60 rows=40>";

I want to dump my buffer here which is in html code, and I want to display in the browser as html not the code of the html

echo "</textarea>";

sfullman

here's the format for a text area:

Note that I use the htmlentities() function so that it displays properly, otherwise the text "<" or "</textarea>" will make the browser think that's the end of the text.

If you want to display HTML coding, I think none of us are sure of your question.

Sam

Anon

hmm, I can't get my question out.

What I'm trying to do is previewing html in a textarea. I want to know if that's possible and if yes, how?

Anon

I think he is saying that he ACTUALLY WANTS TO SEE A WEBPAGE IN A TEXTAREA. such as a hyperlink that you can click on inside the textarea.

Anon

Yes, that what I want, I dont' think it's possible, and want to know from you people is it?

Anon

I am going to have to say NO (just a guess). Of course you could just echo it to the screen and also store it in a variable so when you press submit in your form, it submits that HTML to where ever.

Anon

Are there any ways I can accomplish this. I want to see an actul webpage in a form?

Anon

can you tell us what your purpose for displaying the webpage in a form is and maybe I can help you from there.

Anon

Look. You can use a simple LAYER. And solve all of the problem. And, whatever it is you need to use a FORM for, you can serach the string containing the HTML and add the FORM and /FORM tags just after BODY and before /BODY

A textarea is a textarea. It is an HTML object and will NEVER be able to display a web page, in my opinion, at least the way HTML is nowadays.

fLIPIS

Anon

Why are you using a form to display a web page? Forms were never designed to do that, that's why you're getting negative responses. Why not use an IFRAME?

Diego

Anon

a Layer or if you ensure viewing in IE, an <IFRAME>

warmwind

martin wrote:

ermah. What if $string is "\">" ?

You'd get:
<input type="text" size="11" name="words" value="">">

DO:
<input type="text" size="11" name="words" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($string);?>">

This converts any html chars like < > to html entities - ie &gt &lt &amp