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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** markdown, html\
**Created:** [September 7, 2021, 11:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-parse-as-an-html-string-in-julia/67803 "2021-09-07T11:09:43Z")\
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**Author:**  [@hdcpereira](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hdcpereira)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 11:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-parse-as-an-html-string-in-julia/67803/1 "2021-09-07T11:09:43Z")
So, in python with `import html` it would be easy to do:
```python
def htmlize(obj):
content = html.escape(repr(obj))
return '{}'.format(content)
```
`html.ecape` basically converts the characters `&` , `<` and `>` in string _s_ to HTML. Is there an equivalent for julia?
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**Author:**  [@tlienart](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tlienart)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 11:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-parse-as-an-html-string-in-julia/67803/2 "2021-09-07T11:16:22Z")
The Markdown stdlib module has `htmlesc` which you can use for this
```julia
julia> using Markdown
julia> Markdown.htmlesc("{}")
"<pre>{}</pre>"
```