How to display HTML tags as plain text [duplicate]

Answer 1

In PHP use the function htmlspecialchars() to escape < and >.

htmlspecialchars('<strong>something</strong>')

Answer 2

You just need to encode the <>s:

<strong>Look just like this line - so then know how to type it</strong>

Answer 3

The native JavaScript approach -

('<strong>Look just ...</strong>').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;');

Enjoy!

Answer 4

As many others have said, htmlentities() will do the trick... but it will look like shit.

Wrap it up with a <pre> tag and you'll preserve your indentation.

echo '<pre>';
echo htmlspecialchars($YOUR_HTML);
echo '</pre>';

Answer 5

Use htmlentities() to convert characters that would otherwise be displayed as HTML.

Answer 6

Replace < with < and > with >.