When printing HTML to the console, differentiate between tag objects and `HTML()` text

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3/5
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1-2 days
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35/100
Issue type
Feature
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Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
tooling

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Start by tracing the console-printing entry point for tag objects and the tagQuery() behavior described in the issue, including the tags produced by shiny::selectInput(). Check how HTML() text and tag objects are currently represented, then add a distinguishable display and tests showing that the output makes non-findable tags apparent.

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Description

This is important for tagQuery() as (for example) the <option> tags from shiny::selectInput() can not be found with $find().

This is confusing and unexpected. If the text was grey / italics (or something), then I would have a hint that I can not $find() the tags.

cc @gadenbuie

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