suspend browser reading "TAG"

is there any <MagicTag> which can suspend the
browser reading the HTML <Tag>:

eg:

<MagicTag>
Hello<BR>
World<BR>
</MagicTag>

will output:
"HelloWorld" instead of
"Hello
World
"

I need to do this because I have a <textarea>
input field in a homepage. I dont want
anyway use <TAG> on that input field.

Not quite sure what you want but

<hello<br>world;

will output 'hello<br>world'

what exactly is it you want to achieve?
firepages@hotmail.com


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Simon Wheeler
FirePages -DHTML/PHP/MySQL

sorry - forum disabled the <!--'&lt'-->
<!--<hello<br>world;-->

will output 'hello<br>world'

what exactly is it you want to achieve?
firepages@hotmail.com


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Simon Wheeler
FirePages -DHTML/PHP/MySQL

Thanks for your reply firepages,

indeed, I have made a message discussion board by PHP/MySQL.

I just found out that
if someone put a HTML <TAG> eg, <TEXTAREA>
in a message,
my discussion board program might display
something "wrong"

i want the browser ignore reading the <TAG>
I am not sure if <!---
will work
let me try it out
thx for your reply.

hi again
sorry about the last couple of messages - the forum would not print out the '&literal command - which is exactly the sort of thing that you want to avoid , malicious html tags in textareas etc can be a problem .
I note that you have PHP - so why not use the php ereg commands you can check and format any inputted data before you save it anywhere. See the Regular expression functions in the php manual (http://www.php.net).

Regards Simon

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Simon Wheeler
FirePages -DHTML/PHP/MySQL