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    Posted: 17 June 2003 at 7:36pm

How do you get to show a plain text in an ASP? I want to show some html code (in the page), so that the user can copy and paste it (in their pages). But I want the "<" to be pasted as "<" and not like "&lt;"... and all that stuff.

How can I do this?
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If you mean show ASP code on a page, then the quickest way is to use the <xmp> tag, however im unsure of its compatability, other than that using &lt; and &gt; for the < and > at the start and end of code is fine.

www.w3schools.com has a list of these types of shortcuts
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Or you might try something using Server.HTMLEncode such as this:

<%
varFld = "Hi <b>there</b>"
varFld = Server.HTMLEncode(varFld)
Response.Write varFld
%>

And the above would show all the code in the initial varFld = line and the word "there" would NOT be bold but instead the user would see the bold tags around it.
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I cannot understand, Bullschmidt why when I tried in a single ASP with nothing but the lines you wrote it worked.... and when I tried to implemented within the ASP I had, it doesn't:

Function Encode(sCode)

   Encode = Server.HTMLEncode(sCode)

End Function

<% Response.Write Encode("<!-- " & StartCaption & "-->") %>

I get the "&lt;" pasted instead of the "<". What's going wrong here?

 
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Yes it does seem like it would do the "&lt;" thing but at least it's down automatically even though the user originally pasted in a < .  I just thought it was another approch worth considering.
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