Don't do anything and the escaped characters will appear as you intend. in view code: <% text = " <a href= "http://www.blahblah.org/ blah">LetterAttack...</a > is what i say" -%>
<textarea><%= text -%></textarea> renders like this: <a href= "http://www.blahblah.org/blah";>LetterAttack...</a > is what i say On Sep 23, 4:32 am, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 September 2010 09:20, Maz Zalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Colin Law wrote: > >> On 23 September 2010 04:44, Maz Zalk <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> This is what is in my page source > > >>> <textarea id="text" name="text" rows="6" style="width: 100%">&lt;a > >>> href=&quot;http://www.blahblah.org/blah">LetterAttack</a&;... > >>> this is what i say</textarea> > > >> What is in @text and what did you expect the html to look like? > > >> Colin > > > Hi > > > My question was not clear, I am seeing text in the textarea instead of > > html > > > @text is > > &lt;ahref=&quot;http://www.blahblah.org/blah">LetterAttack</a&;... > > is what i say > > > and what I want to see is > > <a href="http://www.blahblah.org/blah";> LetterAttack this is what i say > > So, for example, you have the string "&lt;" and you want want to > convert it to "<"? > I think that could be tricky, it is certainly not what is meant by > escaping, it is more de-escaping. Can you not start with the text in > a simpler form before it is escaped? If you have only a limited set > of substrings that need converting > then I think you may just have to write code to convert them. > > Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
