Question

I am trying to display an email formatted as "FirstName LastName <[e-mail]>" in HTML, and it is only displaying “FirstName LastName”.

Pseudo-code:

<cfset LOCAL.From = "FirstName LastName <[e-mail]>" />
<cfoutput>#Local.From#</cfoutput>

I know I can replace the less-than and greater-than signs with lt; and gt;, but I’m looking for a better way than Replace(Replace(LOCAL.Form, "<", ";lt;"), ">", "&gt;").

I’m not very good with Regular Expressions, if that’s the way to go, so show me a good RegEx for this, if you’d like.

Or, if this can be done simply with some ColdFusion function, that’s great too.

Answer 1

You’re looking for HTML encoding, rather than string replacement. Use HtmlEditFormat.

Possibly related: How to encode HTML form in coldfusion?