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Asked: 2026-05-13T17:54:40+00:00

I am using PHP’s DOM object to create HTML pages for my website. This

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I am using PHP’s DOM object to create HTML pages for my website. This works great for my head, however since I will be entering a lot of HTML into the body (not via DOM), I would think I would need to use DOM->createElement($bodyHTML) to add my HTML from my site to the DOM object.

However DOM->createElement seems to parse all HTML entities so my end result ended up displaying the HTML on the page and not the actual renders HTML.

I am currently using a hack to get this to work, 

$body = $this->DOM
             ->createComment('DOM Glitch--><body>'.$bodyHTML."</body><!--Woot");

Which puts all my site code in a comment, which I bypass athe comment and manually add the <body> tags.

Currently this method works, but I believe there should be a more proper way of doing this. Ideally something like DOM->createElement() that will not parse any of the string.

I also tried using DOM->createDocumentFragment() However it does not like some of the string so it would error and not work (Along with take up extra CPU power to re-parse the body’s HTML).

So, my question is, is there a better way of doing this other than using DOM->createComment()?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I spent a lot of time working on Anthony Forloney’s answer, But I cannot seem to get the html to append to the body without it erroring.

    @Mark B: I have tried doing that, but as I said in the comments, it errored on my html.

    I forgot to add the below, my solution:

    I decided to make my html object much simpler and to allow me to do this by not using DOM and just use strings.

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