Hi Respective Monks,

I'm having a script to print out a piece of HTML code in its output file which will be viewed.

Meanwhile, the output file is grabbed by some mechanism and displayed on a web tool, which also will be viewed.

The contrary is like, if I let it print out the original HTML code in the output file, the output file will look fine, but on the web tool page the HTML code will be trancated because of the '<' and '>' in it.

To solve this, I let the script convert the '<' to '&#60' and '>' to '&#62' in the output file, then when the web tool page displays the content the whole lot of HTML code shows up right. However in this way, when people directly look at the output file itself, the '&#60' and '&#62' may look somewhat creepy.

So monks, is there a way I can let the HTML code show up nicely on the plain output file as well as the web tool page from the web browser?

Thanks

In reply to HTML code escaped from web page on browser by sylph001

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