HTML Escaping: Conversion Tool Update

If you've ever included a snippet of code in a Blog post or web page using the <pre> tag, then you know that you have to convert all angle brackets and ampersands to their equivalent HTML escape codes (&lt; for left bracket, &gt; for right bracket, and &amp; for ampersand). This can be very time-consuming to do by hand.

I've had a tool for a while - accessible from the tool menu links on the right - that does this conversion, but I recently decided to enhance it a bit.



The tool now allows you to choose among four different colors, three widths and inline styling versus style sheet. Blue, Medium width, and style sheet CSS are the default options: