Display special characters in page

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I'm having one div which will display some text. I'm getting this text from DB. This text can contains special characters like "\",">","<" etc. When I'm trying to display this text in my page, these special characters wont be visible in my page for obvious reasons. So how to handle this situation.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 18 '13 at 09:26

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Since you have mentioned database, I am assuming that you have Java involved...

That being said, you can take a look at Apache's StringEscapeUtils and escape your strings accordingly.

answered Sep 18 '13 at 09:26

npinti

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_Since you have mentioned database, I am assuming that you have Java involved_ Not really true, the OP could have a PHP bridge to the database that he accesses with AJAX, so it would be Javascript. In fact he talks about a _page_ which seems to be a _webpage_. There aren't much informations to provide a complete answer – BackSlash Sep 18 '13 at 09:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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in your javascript you can write function, which will replace all the special characters with code

have a look at this answer Convert special characters to HTML in Javascript

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Sep 18 '13 at 09:28

Jayaram

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 18 '13 at 09:33

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Write a function on java side which will convert all these or expected special characters and will return to front end.

e.g.

function String convert(String var){
var.replace(/&/g,"&amp;").replace(/>/g,"&gt;");
}

answered Sep 18 '13 at 09:33

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Display special characters in page

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