Question

Want to display code on an HTML Table cell and have it formatted using html tags. However, the data shows as a continuous blob of characters

Posted on October 11, 2023
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Asked by Umberto Vizcaino

Hello - I am trying to render python code on an html table cell. The data is html tag formatted but I can’t figure out how to display it properly. Any help would be mist appreciated - Umberto

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KFSys

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• October 11, 2023

Accepted Answer

Heya,

it sounds like you might be dealing with HTML entity encoding or simple text rendering without respecting the HTML format.

Here’s what you can do to display the code correctly:

Preserve Formatting with <pre> and <code> Tags: Use the <pre> (preformatted text) and <code> tags to preserve both whitespace and the formatting of the code.

<table>
    <tr>
        <td><pre><code>&lt;div&gt;Hello World!&lt;/div&gt;</code></pre></td>
    </tr>
</table>

Escape HTML Characters: To show the code as-is, you need to convert special characters to their HTML entity equivalents. For example:
- < becomes <
- > becomes >
- & becomes & This prevents the browser from interpreting them as actual HTML tags.

If the above doesn’t help, can you share a bit more on how you are aproaching the problem, what do you want the end result to be and stuff like that so that I can further try to assist?