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Prefill textarea with string '</textarea>'

This is my textarea for editing a blog comment, the textare content is filled using mustache.js:

<textarea name="content">{{content}}</textarea>

Now if the user typed a html tag into his comment - for example he commented </textarea> my text here - the edit textarea content will show &lt;/textarea&gt; my text here

But if I change {{content}} to {{{content}}}, the resulting html of the comment content will be something like this:

    <textarea name="content"></textarea> my text here</textarea>

Which obviously doesn't work either.

How do I solve this problem? :(

Solution

  • Turns out it was my mistake. I escaped the string once from server side, and then escaped it again using mustache. The actual content filled was &amp;lt;, not &lt; thus resulting in a textarea displaying &lt;