Question

I have a textarea field and I want the user to be not able to enter HTML TAGS it to textarea.

Is that possible?

EXAMPLE

    <textarea rows="4" cols="30" id="textareadescription"></textarea>

In this user not able to enter HTML TAGS like

      <button> Submit </button>

Answer 1

you can do it like this

function Check(){

var reg =/<(.|\n)*?>/g; 

if (reg.test($('#YourTextAreaID').val()) == true) {

    var ErrorText ='do not allow HTMLTAGS';

    alert('ErrorText');

    }
}

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MORE INFO

http://www.pagecolumn.com/tool/all_about_html_tags.htm