Stop HTML converting an & code

I have an HTML table that displays information from 开发者_如何学编程a database, and one of the database fields contains a parameter list such as:

id=eff34-435-567rt-65u&notification=5

But when I display this in the table the &not becomes ¬

I know that you can manually force it to print the right way by using

&not

But I would really rather be able to just use something to force the HTML to ignore the code so I can just pull the text straight from the database and print it to the table without having to do a regex to find out if there are any & and replace them with &amp; I tried using the <pre> tag but that did not work.

Is there any way to force the HTML to print exactly what is typed for that specific td field?

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Nothing practical (CDATA doesn't have browser support in text/html mode). Write proper HTML instead.

You should be running anything that comes out of the database through a conversion function to make it HTML safe anyway (to protect against XSS if nothing else). PHP has htmlspecialchars(), TT has | html. Whatever you are using should have something other then a regex.

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& is the correct HTML encoding for the &. You will need to write the &not for it to display correctly.

If you're pulling from a database, you can use whatever programming language that is available to you to decode HTML entities for you.

For example, in PHP, you could use htmlentities or htmlspecialchars.

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Try using htmlspecialchars().

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most frameworks have HTML Encode functions.

in JavaScript: encode

in C# .NET: HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode

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Just run an HTMLEncode on the string before outputting it. Every server-side scripting language I know of has a built in command to do this. Not to mention that you are eventually going to run into another character that causes problems too.

ASP.NET: HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode
PHP: htmlentities

Regex should definitely NOT be necessary.