# Tricky characters in dynamic textarea

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-characters-in-dynamic-textarea/205107
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**Created:** [October 26, 2006, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-characters-in-dynamic-textarea/205107 "2006-10-26T09:07:22Z")
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### Author: ![kalexand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kalexand](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kalexand)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2006, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tricky-characters-in-dynamic-textarea/205107/1 "2006-10-26T09:07:22Z")

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i’m loading a txt file inside an html-enabled textarea. although i’m having problem displaying some characters, like \<, +, %, \>…  
i replaced % with it’s escape equivalent (%25) and this woked. the \> sign works just fine. the \< sign doesn’t work at all, even when trying to escape it with \<  
the plus sign behaves the same as \<. i’ve used its hex equivalent etc but nothing…  
can you enlighten me?