Problem with Textarea and { Symbol

It's causing the page to not display.

[TimmyMagic]

Hi,

I've been making some modification to a piece of software that works using smarty templates. I've edited a tpl file and added a couple of textareas. One textarea for CSS code and another for HTML code - for the visitor to copy and paste to their website.

However the page fails to display, and comes up blank. I finally narrowed this down to the { and } symbols in the CSS section. It also didn't like the HTML stuff but I added the < and > characters in their other way - &lt; &gt;

Does anyone know how to put the { symbols in the textarea correctly. Is there an alternative to it, like I did with the > character.

Thanks,

Tim

[rocknbil]

I don't think there's an entity for those. If it's in a page, you can use the numeric entities:

&#123; = {
&#125; = }

But as CSS pasted into a form I'm not sure if that will work. in other words, you may get a style like this:

.mystyle &#123; font-weight:700; &#125;

In a query string, the hex equivalents are

%7B = {
%7D = }

Probably something the software is doing with those, not sure.

[TimmyMagic]

&#123; = {
&#125; = }

This is exactly what I needed to know. It now works.

Thanks.