HTML tags in database

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I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?

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Amos King
USPS
Programmer/Analyst
St. Louis, MO

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Can you show some specifc code please? There isn't enough context
here for us to help you.

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On 9/29/06, Amos King <amos.l.king@gmail.com> wrote:

I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?

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Amos King wrote:

I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?

You are probably escaping "<", ">" and "&". Just don't do that.

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4

sure

<table>
   <tr>
      <td><%= post.body %></td>
   </tr>
</table>

body may look like:

Hello, I'm a <a href="www.google.com">link</a>!

I want the html to be interpreted, but it is showing up as text in my
browser so link is not a link.

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On 9/29/06, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/29/06, Amos King <amos.l.king@gmail.com> wrote:
> I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
> for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
> to be recognized?

Can you show some specifc code please? There isn't enough context
here for us to help you.

--
Amos King
USPS
Programmer/Analyst
St. Louis, MO

5

I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?

rhtml looks like:

<table>
  <tr>
     <td><%= post.body %></td>
  </tr>
</table>

body may look like:

Hello, I'm a <a href="www.google.com">link</a>!

output:

Hello, I'm a <a href="www.google.com">link</a>!

I want the html to be interpreted, but it is showing up as text in my
browser so link is not a link.

Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this.

Thanks
Amos

6

Look at the source code.

You might be actually getting &lt;

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On 9/29/06, Amos King <amos.l.king@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, I'm a <a href="www.google.com">link</a>!