How can PHP developers ensure that text splitting into columns does not disrupt HTML tags in the content?

When splitting text into columns in PHP, developers can ensure that HTML tags are not disrupted by using the PHP function `strip_tags()` to remove any HTML tags before splitting the text. Once the text is split into columns, developers can then reapply the HTML tags to each column using the `htmlspecialchars()` function to ensure that the HTML tags are properly encoded. 

<?php

// Sample text with HTML tags
$text = "<p>This is some <strong>sample</strong> text with <a href='#'>HTML</a> tags.</p>";

// Remove HTML tags before splitting text
$stripped_text = strip_tags($text);

// Split text into columns
$columns = str_split($stripped_text, strlen($stripped_text)/2);

// Reapply HTML tags to each column
foreach ($columns as $column) {
    echo htmlspecialchars($column);
}

?>

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PHP text splitting columns HTML tags content

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