echo to <textarea> problem

[brownfox]

I want to allow people to edit .html files that they have uploaded to my server. I use fopen and fread to echo the contents of the file to a <textarea>. The problem is that some of the files contain javascript and html. The javascript is echoed out OK thus:
<script language=&quot;javascript&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;>
But strict html like this:

&lt;script language=&quot;javascript&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;

Gets interpereted by the browser and displays in the <textarea> like this:
<script language=&quot;javascript&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;>
Is there any way to force the <textarea> to display the raw html and not the interpereted (encoded?) html?
Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

[sleipnir214]

No, there is no way to make the browser not interpret HTML as raw text.

However, there is a way to change HTML to something that looks like HTML, but isn't.

Take a look at PHP's htmlspecialchars() function:

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

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[brownfox]

Thanks slep, perfect!