How do I echo html tags in PHP Variable?

Question

Say, $var = "Hello How are you";

I want echo $var to display the assigned string Hello How are you as it is not the parsed html code.

How do I do that?

Do you want to strip the tags? Then use echo strip_tags($var);. — Markus Zeller
– Markus Zeller, Commented Aug 11, 2020 at 13:37
Ah, you want the HTML not parsed by the browser, then use echo htmlentities($var);. — Markus Zeller
– Markus Zeller, Commented Aug 11, 2020 at 13:38
Does this answer your question? Display HTML snippets in HTML — Salim Ibrohimi
– Salim Ibrohimi, Commented Aug 11, 2020 at 13:40
Does this answer your question? Using htmlentities in a string — Luca Faggianelli
– Luca Faggianelli, Commented Aug 12, 2020 at 16:55

Markus Zeller · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-11 17:06:30Z

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HTML tags will automatically parsed by the browser. To see the pure HTML source anyways, the tags needs to be encoded, especially the angle brackets.

There is a dedicated PHP function available for that called htmlentities().

$var = "Hello<br>How are <strong>you</strong>";
echo htmlentitites($var);

Will encode it in the browser so you can see it displayed as plain text like in $var. The browser will see this:

Hello How are you

answered Aug 11, 2020 at 17:06

Markus Zeller

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