Parse HTML code in a textarea

I am wanting to show text from a mysql table in a textarea. And in this text area html code will need to be displayed. But right now it only shows it as

<a href=

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is there anyway I can allow HTML to be displayed in a text area? ​

 

I think is the function you are looking for: html_entity_decode()

 

use addslashes on the string and it should work

 

Use htmlspecialchars() with ENT_QUOTES parameter. e.g.

echo htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_QUOTES);

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maybe I wasnt too clear in what I was asking

for example I want a <h1> tag to actually make the text bigger.

I want the <b> to actually make the text bold

 

Did you try SilkySmooth's suggestion?

 

nevermind all!! I found the problem

I had to go through 30k lines of code and comment out the last 2 lines of:

case ccsLabel:
$value=$this->GetText();
if (!$this->HTML) {
$value = CCToHTML($value);
$value = str_replace("\n", "<BR>", $value);



thanks all for your help, this has been a learning experience for me =)