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Tool for converting your HTML/CFML (or ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, or XML) for display in browser

Note: This blog post is from 2006. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
Have you ever been annoyed when some web form (feedback page, blog comment field, or webforum) fails to properly convert your CFML or HTML so that it's displayed? Does it just disappear? Many know the solution is to convert the tag brackets to their equivalent character entities, > and <), but it's a hassle to do that manually! Last year I wrote about a free web-based tool in another blog of mine, tipicalcharlie.com, and as the challenge came up today on a CF list, I thought I'd point it out here:

http://www.tipicalcharlie.com/convert_markup_for_display.htm (Update: tipicalcharlie domain is no more, but page recovered using Archive.org.)

Note that this is not a tool you need to download and install; it's a hosted tool, just a simple but useful web form that converts whatever code you paste! You can then just copy the result and paste it into your desired form. Enjoy!

Don't miss out on the many powers of the Google Toolbar (some hidden buttons, some new context menu

Note: This blog post is from 2006. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
Here's a blog entry from another site on a topic that I think some of you may enjoy very much:

"Don't miss out on the many powers of the Google Toolbar (some hidden buttons, some new context menu options, and more)"

http://www.tipicalcharlie.com/google_toolbar_1.htm (Update: tipicalcharlie domain is no more, but page recovered using Archive.org.)

Now, if you look closely at the URL, you'll see it's got my name in it. :-) And indeed, it's mine. I started the blog long before this one and in it I share all manner of tips related to computing (not CF-specifically).

I'm always torn about whether to post some topics here or there. I try not to cross-post much at all (and not even to blogs of other folks) unless it's something that I think you might really appreciate and otherwise miss. Such is the case here.

If you like the stuff there (see the categories, as there may be past entries you'd not want to miss), be sure to signup to receive new entries by email (as you can do here), or add it to your RSS reader of course. Not everyone uses them yet. Indeed, see the entry I did there on how to get notification by email of new entries from any blogger who may not offer their own email subscription feature.

(Update: Sadly, squeet (a tool to send RSS feeds by email) is no more. But there are other alternatives, that I track in a category of my CF411 site: http://www.cf411.com/rss_email.)

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