list of sybmols like to display > on html page &gt and which are others

[vishal]

i am making an application.

the user can give description and that description is stored in
database and then the description is shown on html page.

suppose the user has written "<b>hello</b>" in description then in the
database the following will be stored "<b>hello</b>" but when i display
it on database the hello in bold letter will be displayed.

i know the soultion that i have to replace the occurrences of < with
&lt and occurrences of > with &gt but i don't know that which are other
symbols which needs some repair like above so please give me a list of
html symbols and their equivalent symbol

if u can sugges some site then also i m ready

thxs for help

[Daniel Tryba]

Re: list of sybmols like to display &gt; on html page &amp;gt and which are others

vishal <vishal_panjabi @yahoo.co.in> wrote:[color=blue]
> i know the soultion that i have to replace the occurrences of < with
> &lt and occurrences of > with &gt but i don't know that which are other
> symbols which needs some repair like above so please give me a list of
> html symbols and their equivalent symbol[/color]

http://nl2.php.net/htmlspecial_chars sais it all.
[color=blue]
> if u can sugges some site then also i m ready[/color]

You could read the html (4.01) specs at w3.org, it's not that big :)