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Asked: 2026-05-21T07:19:51+00:00

I need to display following special characters in a table TD (exclude the back

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I need to display following special characters in a table TD (exclude the back slash in between < symbol and forward slash),

1) '/<\/@/test#/$/&/)'

But, the browser is able to display only ‘/
i.e, data is getting truncated.

The above issue occurs only when < and / chars occur contiguously.

That is, following works as there is no succeeding forward slash / after the < symbol

2) '/<@/test#/$/&/)'

I am using java code to escape the other special chars.
I am able to successfully replace < with ampersand lt; but how to replace a forward slash / only when < and / appear together.

Please help me

Sorry, even in this website you cannot see what i need to achieve, hence in Point 1 exclude the back slash (I need to display without the backslash, for ur understanding i have put it). I cannot post images as i am a new user.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Everthing which get sent by JSP is by default treated as HTML by the webbrowser. The < indicates start of a HTML tag and thus the webbrowser will parse it as such (and eventually fail due to a syntax error).

    You want to escape those HTML special characters like <, >, & and ".

    &lt; will be displayed as <
&gt; will be displayed as >
&amp; will be displayed as &
&quot; will be displayed as "

    If it is dynamic text, this is best to be done with JSTL <c:out> tag.

    <%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
...
<c:out value="${bean.text}" />

    Of if you want to set a HTML attribute, the JSTL fn:escapeXml() function is nicer.

    <%@taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>
...
<input type="text" value="${fn:escapeXml(bean.text)}" />
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