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In an entry which has a textarea, how do I output something like {this}.

We blog a lot about code, tempting systems, etc. and I can’t figure out a way to simply show the above.

Thanks,
Dave

We have also ran into this a lot with including JavaScript in templates which is sometimes unavoidable. The only workaround so far is to do something like the following…

{
this
}

Of course in your scenario you aren’t going to want line-breaks so that isn’t an option. Very interested to hear from the EE team if there is a solution for both our problems.

Yep, exactly. I’ve used the line break trick to get it to not mess with some JavaScript in page templates, but for a blog post on a different templating system, there’s just no getting around it…

Hi morfunk and welcome to the forums 😊

Can you explain with some context as to why you wish to add this to a textarea?
Is it a code example?

Did you try wrapping it in <code> or <pre> tags. Or using the html entities for the curly braces?