What do HTML is escaping means?

Issue

This may be a bad question but I searched but didn't find anything.

HTML is escaping = HTML is showing as it is?

Example: If i try to put any html tag here, it will not show that tag (It will simply work). What is it? Escaping or not escaping?

Solution

Escaping in HTML means, that you are replacing some special characters with others. In HTML it means usally, you replace e. e.g < or > or " or &. These characters have special meanings in HTML.

Imagine, you write

<b>hello, world</b>

And the text will appear as hello, world. But sometime you don't want to have this behaviour. So you replace the < and >.

<b>hello world</b>

This will result in <b>hello world</b>.

Answered By - tjati