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Asked: 2026-05-23T12:19:55+00:00

I have an HTML table that displays information from a database, and one of

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I have an HTML table that displays information from a database, and one of the database fields contains a parameter list such as:

id=eff34-435-567rt-65u&notification=5

But when I display this in the table the &not becomes ¬

I know that you can manually force it to print the right way by using 

&not

But I would really rather be able to just use something to force the HTML to ignore the code so I can just pull the text straight from the database and print it to the table without having to do a regex to find out if there are any & and replace them with &amp; I tried using the <pre> tag but that did not work.

Is there any way to force the HTML to print exactly what is typed for that specific td field?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Nothing practical (CDATA doesn’t have browser support in text/html mode). Write proper HTML instead.

    You should be running anything that comes out of the database through a conversion function to make it HTML safe anyway (to protect against XSS if nothing else). PHP has htmlspecialchars(), TT has | html. Whatever you are using should have something other then a regex.

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