HTML, PHP are Escape characters '<' and '>', while echoes

Question

I want to print the following text:

 echo "<label> AAAAA"; 

But it just shows “AAAAA” as a result.

How can I avoid '<' and '>'.

Answer 1

Use htmlspecialchars .

 <?php echo htmlspecialchars("abc & < >"); ?> 

Answer 2

 echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA"); 

Answer 3

Use htmlentities() to convert to a text string.

 <?php echo htmlentities("<label> AAAAA"); ?> 

Answer 4

 <?php $string = "<label> AAAAA"; //whatever you want echo htmlspecialchars($string); ?> 

refrence htmlspecialchars

Answer 5

check this http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php and this is the code -

 echo htmlentities ("<label> AAAAA"); 

Answer 6

 echo "<label> AAAAA"; 

Answer 7

Use HTML objects: < for < and > for > . Can be achieved using the htmlspecialchars function: http://php.net/htmlspecialchars .

Read more about HTML objects here: http://www.santagata.us/characters/CharacterEntities.html

Answer 8

You should avoid special characters for HTML.

echo "<label> AAAA"

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp