19Mar2009
Easily convert characters to HTML entities
Posting code within a comment or post can often be a royal pain! Converting every instance of an HTML bracket from “<” and “>” to “<” and “>”, is not only frustrating but a complete waist of time. Fortunately, there are a few websites out there that will do the dirty work for us.
These converters will also handle the following HTML characters converting them to their respective HTML entities.
- < to <
- > to >
- ' to '
- " to "
- & to &
Postable
Postable seems to be the complete package since it converts all HTML characters and symbols.
Link: http://www.elliotswan.com/postable/
i Make Postable
This is fine for most situations, but it doesn't support conversion for HTML symbols.
Link: http://www.khurshid.com/i-make-postable/
Postable (Noteslog)
I found this to be identical to i Make Postable.
It would be great to have something which converts anything BUT html tags, for instance:
Inició sus estudios en la escuela school name y se recibió magna cum laude en etc. etc..
would NOT become:
<p>Inició sus estudios en la escuela <a href="www.whatever.org">school name</a> y se recibió <i>magna cum laude</i> en etc. etc..</p>
BUT INSTEAD:
Inició sus estudios en la escuela school name y se recibió magna cum laude en etc. etc..
to which result anyway one can get by putting the unwanted result into any text editor and replacing all occurrences of
< with
" with ”
I came to need something like this because I saved one page with google chrome without noticing that it had replaced &entities of the page code by single characters which were NOT in the original page code, ó with ó, á with á, etc., and I started comfortably editing the text in between html tags (the original text I was translating was carrying links that I wanted to respect in the translation).
When I realized, I couldn’t figure out a quick way to resolve the conversion inside Notepad++ (at least not with the plugins I took the time to investigate), I found this page (thanks) and I ended up using http://www.elliotswan.com/postable/ and converting ” back to single character.
Uhhh my comment is now html-wise interpreted… sorry.
I don’t see here any chance of embedding “CODE”-like text which would not be html-wise interpreted… I should “escape” a lot of sequences but with no chance to “edit” a post I don’t even start trying that…
Please just look at my previous comment looking for it in the page source (it should be ctrl-U in mozilla based browsers like firefox, sea monkey or google chrome, then ctrl-F for text search).
Hey Nicola,
Try dropping it into something like http://pastebin.com/ then link to it in your comment.
Thank you brobison, here it is:
http://pastebin.com/LyNqbh5n
(Ooook I put this one shorter post because the previous post with the link to the code in pastebin was not appearing any more, no matter how many times I was clearing the cache and reloading the page with two differente browsers… mistery… just after putting the shorter answer the previous one was there again, I can’t delete either so…)
(OK I found out, Google Chrome 11.0.696.71 [up to date 2/6/2011+ does NOT see my answer[s] to brobison, Seamonkey 2.0.14 does. It’s certainly a Google Chrome problem because I had similar facts these days. Sorry for the monologue.)
Thank you brobison, here it is:
http://pastebin.com/LyNqbh5n
Maybe I can put a clickable link to the URL, that is the html code with the anchor to the URL (if this doesn’t turn into a link, just copy and paste the URL above… well one of the two should work):
Wish: convert &entities but NOT html tags.
I use the webtool http://www.html-entities.org/, very easy.