HTML source from database

Question

Hi all,
I am putting up all the button text, label text, and messages in the database. Then i call up a PL/SQL process onload of the page, and populate these labels and text dynamically. all worked fine till here.
Problem arised when i keep a message,
<bold tag> Some Information <end bold tag>
(where bold tag means b, and end bold tag means \b) as i dont know how to place bold tags here on forum.in the database. When this text is placed in an HTML region, it renders as it is "with the tags", is there any way we can remove the tags and place this text as it should render after the tags?
Many thanks,
Sunil Bhatia

Answer 1

Hi Sunil,
Make the region a PL/SQL anonymous block then use the HTP.print() command to output to screen. e.g. I have a record &lt;b>Hi&lt;/b> in my database (with the tags). and the following code:
DECLARE
     cursor cur is select field from HTML_TEST;
     msg varchar2(400);
BEGIN
     for c in cur  loop
          msg := c.field;
     end loop;
     HTP.print(msg);
end;It prints out the value with the formatting in place (<b>Hi</b>). My test was simple (one column with 1 row) but I'm sure the same can be applied to your idea.
Mike
Edited by: Dird on 06-Aug-2009 03:34