jquery convert HTML code to plain text

Question

I am doing a chat application. In that when I posted a html code it gives HTML executed out put

For Eg if I posted as:

<i><h1>welcome</h1></i>

it gives out put as

welcome

but I need my out put same like as input. The actual output should be

<i><h1>welcome</h1></i>

Could any one help me plz.. Thanks advance,,,

and -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5627484/print-html-tags-in-javascript — adeneo, Nov 07 '14 at 06:08
and -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24816/escaping-html-strings-with-jquery — Kolban, Nov 07 '14 at 06:09

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '14 at 06:06

2

you should use pre tag :-

<pre><i><h1>welcome</h1></i></pre>

answered Nov 07 '14 at 06:06

Mukul Kant

Ahmet Can Güven · Answer 2 · 2014-11-07T06:09:58.720

0

$("div").text("test"); this is what you looking for.

You can use .text() to escape html characters.

edited Nov 07 '14 at 06:09

answered Nov 07 '14 at 06:04

Ahmet Can Güven

welcome