Java HTML Encode html_encode(String input_string)

Description

htmencode

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String html_encode(String input_string) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*****************************************************************************
 *
 * Blue Star, a Java Port of .//from ww w  . j  av a 2s  .  c o  m
 * Last Modified : 3/20/2006
 *
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public class Main {
    public static String html_encode(String input_string) {

        char[] input = input_string.toCharArray();

        StringBuffer encoded_html_string = new StringBuffer();

        for (int x = 0; x < input.length; x++) {

            /* alpha-numeric characters don't get encoded */
            if ((input[x] >= '0' && input[x] <= '9')
                    || (input[x] >= 'A' && input[x] <= 'Z')
                    || (input[x] >= 'a' && input[x] <= 'z')) {
                encoded_html_string.append(input[x]);
            }

            /* spaces are encoded as non-breaking spaces */
            else if (input[x] <= ' ') {

                encoded_html_string.append("&nbsp;");
            }

            /* for simplicity, everything else gets represented by its numeric value */
            else {
                encoded_html_string.append(String.format("&#%d;",
                        (int) input[x]));
            }
        }

        return encoded_html_string.toString();
    }
}

Related

1. forHtmlComplete(final String aText)
2. forHTMLTag(String aTagFragment)
3. forHTMLTag(String aTagFragment)
4. html(String text)
5. html(String text)
6. HTMLBREncode(String str)
7. htmlEncode(final String source, StringBuffer target)
8. htmlEncode(Object input)
9. htmlEncode(String html)