& and &

How can one stop a browser from converting

&

to

& ?

We have a textarea in our system wehre a user can type in some html code
and have it saved to the database. When the data is retireved and
redisplayed it is displayed as simply &.

HTML snippet:

<TEXTAREA NAME="p_html" ROWS=6 COLS=70 ALIGN="VIRTUAL" WRAP="YES">
fred
&
&amp;
</TEXTAREA>

When displayed, the user predictably sees

fred
&
&

What workarounds are there for this - I am sure it's a problem for
others - is there a way of "escaping" the value before display?


--

jeremy

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