How to make "<" not interpreted in .html() using jQuery?

Question

I have to generate a php file from the content of a div, this is working. But characters like < and > are blocking the generation.

For example :

<div id="test">
<p> I want to have this in my php file &lt;?php echo "tatata" ?&gt; </p>
</div>

I'm using the function $("#test").html() to get the content before to send it to a php file using ajax.

If I do an alert of this, I get the correct data but when I open the php file generated, I only have :

<div id="test">
<p> I want to have this in my php file

I've tried to use &#60 instead of < I dont know if the problem comes from jQuery or the php code I call with ajax.

But I'm sure the problem is due to the < and > characters, because when I remove them, it works correctly.

Thanks for your help !

Possible duplicate of [What is the difference between client-side and server-side programming?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13840429/what-is-the-difference-between-client-side-and-server-side-programming) — treyBake, Aug 01 '19 at 11:22
@treyBake no. Here I want to get ALL the content (including HTML) of the test div. It's not supposed to print anything. THe content (php and HTML) will be saved in a file to be processed later, not here :) I want to get the content as a string to save it :) — Spydaxx, Aug 01 '19 at 11:25
@Spydaxx so you want it to output as plain-text? so the PHP never gets executed? — treyBake, Aug 01 '19 at 11:30
@treyBakei yes that's what I want. I want the content of the div as pure text. But "<" is supposed to be saved as " — Spydaxx, Aug 01 '19 at 11:34
or the manual https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php — treyBake, Aug 01 '19 at 11:38
@treyBake no. I don't know this function. I'm going to the docs. — Spydaxx, Aug 01 '19 at 11:39
may need to escape the entities: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24816/escaping-html-strings-with-jquery/13510502 — Pete, Aug 01 '19 at 11:41
@treyBake i'll try to use str_replace in my php to see if it resolves the problem — Spydaxx, Aug 01 '19 at 11:42
@treyBake It works perfectly using str_replace ! Thank you very much ^^ — Spydaxx, Aug 01 '19 at 11:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 01 '19 at 12:05

1

The suggestion of @treyBake is working perfectly.

As he suggested in the comments, the function str_replace solved the problem. I use it just before to create my php file and it's working.

Thank you @treyBake ! :)

answered Aug 01 '19 at 12:05

Spydaxx

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 01 '19 at 11:58

0

Have you tried using htmlentities?

e.g.

echo htmlentities('&lt;sometext&gt;');

edited Aug 01 '19 at 11:58

treyBake

answered Aug 01 '19 at 11:52

Dan Gribble

2 Answers2