Re: quickform: htmlspecialchars() is in the way
| From: | Justin Patrin | Date: | Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:26:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: quickform: htmlspecialchars() is in the way | ||
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On 6/20/05, Jeroen Houben <jeroen@terena.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem where I want a value of a hidden element to NOT be
> escaped by htmlspecialchars(). Is this possible? It doesn't seem to be
> since it is based on HTML_Common which has no options for specifying
> these kinds of things..
>
Please explain why you want this. If you don't run htmlspecialchars on
attributes you can quite easily get invalid HTML. It would be wrong in
any situation I can think of to not run htmlspecialchars on a value.
Actually IMHO it should be htmlentities, but anyway...
--
Justin Patrin