- From: Andrew Clover <and-w3@doxdesk.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 09:19:51 +0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
Cortland Haws <pixelcort@pixelcort.com> wrote:
>> <textarea>
>> <p>Blah, blah, blah.</p>
>> </textarea>
> How does one go about doing this
The <p> here is not markup, it is literal text content and should be
encoded as such:
<textarea>
<p>Blah, blah, blah.</p>
</textarea>
Otherwise not only will tools get confused about '<' and '&' characters,
but the string "</textarea>" will completely mess up the page (with possible
cross-site-scripting implications).
> In relativity, how could XForms address this issue?
There isn't really an issue. But if you really want to write literal text
without having to escape '<' and '&' in XHTML docs, a CDATA section will
do it:
<textarea><![CDATA[
<p>Blah, blah, blah.</p>
]]></textarea>
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Andrew Clover
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Received on Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:38:59 UTC