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Inserting smiley into the HTML

How do I insert a smiley in the HTML programatically? I want to know the logic as how does it exist along with text? Is it a styled ASCII character or something? thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Assuming you mean smilies as found in various forums, you simply replace the ASCII smiley with a HTML img element on the server side. The output will look like this:

    <p>This is a paragraph <img src="wink.png" alt=";)"></p>

    Most of the time this is achieved using e.g. the PHP str_replace function.