Re: Storing HTML: HTML entities being rendered in that raw form

On Apr 9, 2009, at 9:27 AM, linnewbie wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have stored HTML in a text field that I subsequently render on the
> web.  However when I retrieve and render this data on the web I  am
> getting the entities being rendered in their raw form, ie, instead of
> getting the '&' symbol when '&' is stored  I'm getting the 'raw'
> '&'.
>
> I would be grateful if anyone can point out how I can get around this.
>

It's a problem in your code, not the database. You're probably
escaping it one time to many or unescaping it one time too few.

Cheers,
   Steve