Displaying HTML tags in an Access database

URL please.

Likely when coming out of the db, the <> are getting encoded.

my guess is that in order to insert into the db you's getting encoded to ascii or something else, so instead of having the string hey there returned you're getting (this is ascii but to show the character breask i' putting | before each string of numbers. to reproduce this open an editor and hold down alt while typing the string, or prepend the number with &# and add ; to the end and but that into an html document. that's what i think your script is doing) |060|098|062|104|101|121|032|116|104|101|114|101|060|047|098|062

while this is great for the db, it doesn't quite work right unless you convert it first

Unfortunately my test area is not available to the public but here's the URL of a spot I'll be needing this:

http://www.nscc.ca/Learning_Programs/part-time/Metro/qry_certificateid.asp?enterID=379

In the description if I wanted to have all references to Microsoft Office in bold; the memo field in my database would look like this:

Windows2000 and the Microsoft Office (Standard and Professional) suite of software applications has become very popular and in many cases the chosen standard within many home and business environments....

When it is called on the website it looks exaclty the same. The tags are not being parsed they are only being seen as plain text.

The ASP code I'm using to call this memo is this:

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks!
Devil's Angel

ok. are you storing it in your db via that call? while i don't know asp it looke like it's suppossed ot be similar to php's htmlEntities or htmlSpecialChars, which actually changes <> among others into the ascii equivalents. if so you need to pare the information when you call it from your database. assuming you have something similar to preg_replace that uses the perl regular expressions, or something else ot do a regular expression replacing, then look foir the expression

Quote: 060

and change that to

Quote: <

and look for

Quote: 062

and change that to

Quote: >

if you have perl, which allows for non greedy, you can use < in your text as well as > by searching for

Quote: 060(.*?)062

and replacing with

Quote: <\1>

be forewarned, i think the function hanges it to < and > but i can't be positive. i don't know enough about the php function and i don't know asp at all even though it was made as an answer to php (although i could probably pick it up really damn quickly due to myknowledge of php)

The HTMLEncode is a method that applies HTML encoding to a specified string.

The Examples from W3Schools is:

The following script:

Output:

The image tag: <img>Web browser output:

The image tag:

But when it calls on a field in my database it's not doing this. I've tried using < and > and it just shows them as plain text as well.

I'm not writing anything to this database just pulling data from it. Those in charge of this content on our website enter the data into MS Access via a form in the database.

Thanks!
Devil's Angel

because that's what a browser does., and it means it's not converting to ascii but to the html shorts. now if you're not doing any encoding, then there shouldn't be a problem, unless the people sending it TO the db do that, in which case you need to parse. again, i sugget perl for hte non-greedy ability if you have it. search for

Quote: <(.*?)>

and replace with

Quote: <\1>

You will need to use this:
Server.HTMLDecode(strTextFromDB)

I tried using Server.HTMLDecode and it doesn't display any of the information in the field.

I've tried replacing the in the memo field with [bold] and then changing it back in my asp script and it replaces it but it still displays in the information.

Devil's Angel

Thanks for your help everyone! I found out what my problem is and it's working fine now.

Thanks again!
Devil's Angel

What was the solution?