# Display xml in textarea

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/display-xml-in-textarea/274539>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [October 31, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/display-xml-in-textarea/274539 "2008-10-31T06:28:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![kookaburra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@kookaburra](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kookaburra)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/display-xml-in-textarea/274539/1 "2008-10-31T06:28:20Z")

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i’d like to display an xml fetched from a certain url as it is into to textarea component.  
can we display it the way it is displayed in a browser, i.e. well indented?