Question

I have some text like below saved in a text file

<b>This is my life</b>

I want to show this text as looking below

This is my life

But currently in my html page i can see just this text

<b>This is my life</b>

How i can achieve step 1 ..?

I am getting the above text in a html page as follows

  <p class="demo"><c:out value="${demo.text}"/></p>

it’s basically a struts application and jsp pages .

Answer 1

Your text in saved text file is html special chars encoded. You need to decode it before inserting. For example replace < to < and > to > character in all text saved in text file and then insert result into html page.