Question

How can i handle user inputs with textarea, i need to strip user entered html tags, store text somewhere and display it back in a webpage.
I also need to take care about line breaks

Any best practices without using <pre> tag ?

Answer 1

You can always do a find-replace of \n with <br /> to preserve line breaks.

However, stripping html is a bit trickier. The easiest thing to do is replace < and > with < and >. But that doesn’t actually strip the html, it merely forces it to render as plain text instead of html.

You could use a regex replace to remove <anything> but that has many potential pitfalls.