How do I convert this?

[Terry Pinnell]

First, I'm not a web designer and know very little about HTML.

A program I use (Memory-Map) has a comments box which usually contains plain
text. But on this occasion each of the thousand or so entries contain code
like this:

<B>Alt Name : </B>-- <br><B>Opened: </B>--
<br><B>Status Dec 1944: </B>-- <br><B>Current
use: </B>PS <br><B>Remarks: </B>-- <B>Alt Name
: </B>-- <br><B>Opened: </B>--
<br><B>Status Dec 1944: </B>-- <br><B>Current
use: </B>PS <br><B>Remarks: </B>--

I tried pasting that into my text editor, re-saving it with an HTM extension,
and opening it in my browser, Firefox. But instead of the formated text I'd
expected (which I intended to copy/paste back to the comments box) I still
see tagged text like this:

<B>Alt Name : </B>-- <br><B>Opened: </B>-- <br><B>Status Dec 1944: </B>--
<br><B>Current use: </B>PS <br><B>Remarks: </B>-- <B>Alt Name : </B>--
<br><B>Opened: </B>-- <br><B>Status Dec 1944: </B>-- <br><B>Current use:
</B>PS <br><B>Remarks: </B>--

How should I accomplish this please?

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

First, I'm not a web designer and know very little about HTML.

A program I use (Memory-Map) has a comments box which usually contains plain
text. But on this occasion each of the thousand or so entries contain code
like this:

&lt;B&gt;Alt Name :&lt;/B&gt;--&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Opened:&lt;/B&gt;--
&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Status Dec 1944:&lt;/B&gt;--&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Current
use:&lt;/B&gt;PS&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Remarks:&lt;/B&gt;--&lt;B&gt;Alt Name
:&lt;/B&gt;--&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Opened:&lt;/B&gt;--
&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Status Dec 1944:&lt;/B&gt;--&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Current
use:&lt;/B&gt;PS&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Remarks:&lt;/B&gt;--

I tried pasting that into my text editor, re-saving it with an HTM extension,
and opening it in my browser, Firefox. But instead of the formated text I'd
expected (which I intended to copy/paste back to the comments box) I still
see tagged text like this:

<B>Alt Name :</B>-- <br><B>Opened:</B>-- <br><B>Status Dec 1944:</B>--
<br><B>Current use:</B>PS<br><B>Remarks:</B>-- <B>Alt Name :</B>--
<br><B>Opened:</B>-- <br><B>Status Dec 1944:</B>-- <br><B>Current use:
</B>PS<br><B>Remarks:</B>--

How should I accomplish this please?

Search and Replace "&lt;" to "<" and then "&gt;" to ">" to restore the
HTML tags that Memory-Map has encoded. But to really understand what
happened in why you need to at least get a rudimentary understanding
what HTML is.

http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/

 

[Neredbojias]

First, I'm not a web designer and know very little about HTML.

A program I use (Memory-Map) has a comments box which usually
contains plain text. But on this occasion each of the thousand or so
entries contain code like this:

&lt;B&gt;Alt Name : &lt;/B&gt;-- &lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Opened:
&lt;/B&gt;-- &lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Status Dec 1944: &lt;/B&gt;--
&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Current use: &lt;/B&gt;PS
&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Remarks: &lt;/B&gt;-- &lt;B&gt;Alt Name
: &lt;/B&gt;-- &lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Opened: &lt;/B&gt;--
&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Status Dec 1944: &lt;/B&gt;--
&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Current use: &lt;/B&gt;PS
&lt;br&gt;&lt;B&gt;Remarks: &lt;/B&gt;--

I tried pasting that into my text editor, re-saving it with an HTM
extension, and opening it in my browser, Firefox. But instead of the
formated text I'd expected (which I intended to copy/paste back to
the comments box) I still see tagged text like this:

<B>Alt Name : </B>-- <br><B>Opened: </B>-- <br><B>Status Dec 1944:
</B>-- <br><B>Current use: </B>PS <br><B>Remarks: </B>-- <B>Alt Name
: </B>-- <br><B>Opened: </B>-- <br><B>Status Dec 1944: </B>--
<br><B>Current use: </B>PS <br><B>Remarks: </B>--

How should I accomplish this please?

Search-and-replace with ye olde text editor: < for &lt; and > for &gt;

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Search and Replace "&lt;" to "<" and then "&gt;" to ">" to restore the
HTML tags that Memory-Map has encoded. But to really understand what
happened in why you need to at least get a rudimentary understanding
what HTML is.

http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/

Thanks both, appreciate the fast replies.