Qoute problem

I think I found another problem. In my html source.. I get this: <input type=hidden name=describe value="The National Science Foundation has awarded $2.9 million to the Web100 Project, a research effort aimed at bringing data transmission rates of 100 megabits per second to the desktops of researchers. The three-year grant, effective September 15, provides funding to develop software that can automatically \"tune\" computer operating systems to fully exploit available network bandwidth. "> In netscape.. it will highlight strings such that you can see whats going on.. and it appears that when I do the value = part.. it is getting cut off after automatically. Its like in the <input type=hidden value="<php print $describe?>"> the qoutes are not being escaped.. so the HTML gets messed up. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks! -Tanya