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You can show HTML tags as plain text in HTML on a website or webpage by replacing < with < or &60; and > with > or &62; on each HTML tag that you want to be visible. Ordinarily, HTML tags are not visible to the reader on the browser.
The <plaintext> HTML element renders everything following the start tag as raw text, ignoring any following HTML. There is no closing tag, since everything after it is considered raw text. Warning: Do not use this element.
Summary. The <xmp> HTML element renders text between the start and end tags without interpreting the HTML in between and using a monospaced font.
I'd like to add an area to a page where all of the dynamic content is rendered as plain text instead of markup. For example:
<myMagicTag>
<b>Hello</b> World
</myMagicTag>
I want the <b> tag to show up as just text and not as a bold directive. I'd rather not have to write the code to convert every "<" to an "<".
I know that <textarea> will do it, but it has other undesirable side effects like adding scroll bars.
Does myMagicTag exist?
Edit: A jQuery or javascript function that does this would also be ok. Can't do it server-side, unfortunately.
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