Display as Character in textarea

Question

In my html page, I have a textarea tag and some text inside it. Later I will process the text.

<html>
    <body>
        <textarea name="" id="" cols="30" rows="10">
            test&#xA;test
        </textarea>

    </body>
</html>

But in the output html page '& #xA;' (adding a space to avoid character from being invisible ) is being replaced with a newline. I want to see those characters as character. Basically I want to escape that from being parsed.

I did a lot of research looked at html escape characters and did not find anything.

Also I looked at a SO question here and I want to do exact opposite.

You can look at the jsfiddle here

Is there any way to escape this character.

Thank you in advance.

sideshowbarker · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-20T09:35:20.410

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textarea is an escapable raw text element, so any sequence of characters inside it that starts with "&" (ampersand) and that ends with a semicolon gets parsed as a character reference.

So to prevent the 
 in the test
test code snippet in the question from being parsed as a character reference for the newline character, the "&" just needs to be replaced with &:

test&amp;#xA;test

edited Dec 20 '16 at 09:35

answered Dec 20 '16 at 08:24

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '16 at 09:09

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<html>
    <body>
        <textarea name="" id="" cols="30" rows="10">
            test&amp;#xa;test
        </textarea>

    </body>
</html>

answered Dec 20 '16 at 09:09

rapaelec

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Display as Character in textarea

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