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[Smarmosaur]

on my website, i'm using a textarea, to post a code.
however, i have a myspace code with a comment box in it:

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<form method="post" action="http://comments.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.ConfirmComment"><input name="friendID" value="46340633" type="hidden"><textarea name="f_comments" style="width: 155px; height: 55px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: 000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10px; color: 000000; background-color: transparent;" style="overflow:auto;">Lyke woaw, I totally <3 you.</textarea><br> <input value="Add Comment" style="width:155px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: 000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10px; color: 000000; background-color: transparent;" type="submit"></form>

however, notice that there is a textarea in there. the

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</textarea>

closes the textarea that i have the coding in, causing the rest of the form after that textarea to actually appear (the add comment button actually shows up).
is there another way to display the codes without a textarea?
will it work if i add in an iframe and point it at just a plain text document with the code in it?

[schizo]

You can change the < and > in the code you want in the box to HTML codes. You only have to do that to the textarea parts. I'm pretty sure the codes are & l t ; and & g t ;. Just don't put the spaces. :)

[nitrogoat]

This is a problem I had as well.
As well as

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&lt;

and

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&rt;

(which is what I used on my site), you could just link to a text file with the coding in, which would be better if you had a lot of

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</textarea>

tags.

[Smarmosaur]

oops. i forgot about this, even though i did it forever ago.
anyways.

You can change the < and > in the code you want in the box to HTML codes. You only have to do that to the textarea parts. I'm pretty sure the codes are & l t ; and & g t ;. Just don't put the spaces. :)

i was like DDDUUUUHHHHH *smacks head* when i read that. thanks! :]

[manny-the-dino]

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