Tool for converting your HTML/CFML (or ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, or XML) for display in browser
Note: This blog post is from 2006. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.Have you ever been annoyed when some web form (feedback page, blog comment field, or webforum) fails to properly convert your CFML or HTML so that it's displayed? Does it just disappear? Many know the solution is to convert the tag brackets to their equivalent character entities, > and <), but it's a hassle to do that manually! Last year I wrote about a free web-based tool in another blog of mine, tipicalcharlie.com, and as the challenge came up today on a CF list, I thought I'd point it out here:
http://www.tipicalcharlie.com/convert_markup_for_display.htm (Update: tipicalcharlie domain is no more, but page recovered using Archive.org.)
Note that this is not a tool you need to download and install; it's a hosted tool, just a simple but useful web form that converts whatever code you paste! You can then just copy the result and paste it into your desired form. Enjoy!
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