Inserting smiley into the HTML

formatting, html, javascript

Solution

Assuming you mean smilies as found in various forums, you simply replace the ASCII smiley with a HTML `img` element on the server side. The output will look like this:

<p>This is a paragraph <img src="wink.png" alt=";)"></p>

Most of the time this is achieved using e.g. the PHP `str_replace` function.

Problem

How do I insert a smiley in the HTML programatically? I want to know the logic as how does it exist along with text? Is it a styled ASCII character or something? thanks in advance.

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