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title: "What is the difference between HTMLEditFormat and HTMLCodeFormat?"  
description: "What is the difference between HTMLEditFormat and HTMLCodeFormat?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-05-17  
updated: 2020-09-21  
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category: "cold fusion"  
tags: ["cold fusion"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the difference between HTMLEditFormat and HTMLCodeFormat?

Both are used to replaces special characters in a string with their HTML-escaped equivalents\
Difference between HTMLCodeFormat function and HTMLEditFormat is that HTMLEditFormat does not surround the text in an HTML pre tag

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Both are used to replaces special characters in a string with their HTML-escaped equivalents\
Difference between HTMLCodeFormat function and HTMLEditFormat is that HTMLEditFormat does not surround the text in an HTML pre tag


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