Perfect. Thank you, I did try using a $.get request but I was tyring
to replace charecters instead of injecting the data as text. This is
exactly what I was trying to do. I thought there was a very simple
and clean way to do it but I wasn't sure how. Thank you much!
On Apr 4, 12:08 am, Abdullah Rubiyath <alif...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> If I am getting this right.. you are trying to get the contents of
> another file and inject it into an element, but ensuring it shows as
> plain text and javascripts are not executed.
>
> Can you try replacing $('#thisDiv').load with a $.get request and do
> the following:
>
> $.get('../sample.html', function(data) {
> $('#thisDiv').text( data );
>
> });
>
> With this approach, the html entities (<,&,> etc.) will be converted
> to their appropriate characters and then injected to $('#thisDiv').
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Thanks,
> Abdullah.
>
> On Apr 3, 11:27 pm, Nikola <nik.cod...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Anyone have any ideas or input on this one?
>
> > On Apr 3, 6:29 pm, Nikola <nik.cod...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Thanks MorningZ, I gave this approach whirl and in a roundabout sort
> > > of way it seems to accomplish the same thing I was doing in my third
> > > example.
>
> > > $("#thisDiv").load("../sample.html", { }, function() {
> > > var div = document.createElement("div");
> > > var text = document.createTextNode($("#thisDiv").html());
> > > div.appendChild(text);
> > > var EscapedHTML = div.innerHTML;
> > > $("#thisDiv").text(EscapedHTML);
>
> > > });
>
> > > In a nutshell I want to display the text of an HTML file as plain
> > > text. I'm able to do this, with HTML, but I'm unable to prevent the
> > > javascipt in the HTML from executing. My goal is to write a simple
> > > function that loads code from a document and displays it as text.- Hide
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