Rendering Plaintext as HTML maintaining whitespace – without

Question

Given any arbitrary text file full of printable characters, how can this be converted to HTML that would be rendered exactly the same (with the following requirements)?

Answer 1

Is is very simple if you use jQuery library in your project.

Just one line ,Add asHTml extenstion to String Class and :

var plain='<a> i am text plain </a>'
plain.asHtml();
/* ' i am text plain ' */

DEMO :http://jsfiddle.net/abdennour/B6vGG/3/

Note : You will not have to access to DoM . Just use builder design pattern of jQuery $('')