Re: displaying var in textarea

"Shawn McKenzie" <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote in message news:20031010152321.37202.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I have a var: > $test = 'echo \'test\';'; > > If I display this in a textearea like so: > echo "<textarea wrap=\"virtual\" rows=\"20\" style=\"width: > 100%\" > name=\"action\">\n" > .$test > ."</textarea>\n"; > > In the browser and in the HTML source I see (no slashes): > echo 'test'; > > Even if I do an htmlentities($test); I see no slashes and the single-quotes > are not shown in the HTML source as &quot; > > Is this just a behavior of the textarea??? > > Thanks! > -Shawn Shawn, try $test = 'echo \\'test\\';';