displaying quotes in input boxes 1

[Kavius]

I have an input box that allows the user to enter some company information. It is a free form text entry and I have come across a problem. If the user enters a quote in the box and then come back to edit the information he loses everything after the quote.

This is too obvious a problem for there not to be a fix, but I can't figure it out for the life of me.
[tt]
<input type='text' name='compname' value='Bob's Services'>
<input type='text' name='compnote' value="Bob is "helpful"">
[/tt]
See the problem?

 

[cLFlaVA]

How are you printing those lines of HTML to the screen? What scripting language?

*cLFlaVA
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"Holy crip he's a crapple!

 

[Kavius]

ASP, but its an HTML problem that I am going to be having in Perl, PHP, MAS90, and one C app (I imagine).

 

[jstreich]

It's a langauge dependant thing...
PHP has "strip slashes" and "add slashes" to protect against these things.
I assume ASP and perl do to.
C++ you'll have to parse yourself....

Also, watch out for the lessthan and greater thans... so that HTML/PHP inserts can't happen.

 

[Kavius]

So what is the end HTML result that I have to add to the value to get the quotes displaying?

 

[Vragabond]

A single quote (apostrophe) should be: &#39;
Double quote should be: &#34;

Even better, proper curly quotes could be: &rsquo; and &lsquo; (right single quote and left single quote) or &rdquo and &ldquo; (right double quote and left double quote)

 

[Kavius]

Oops... That was the first thing I tried... except I put &39; not &#39;

I don't know whether curly quotes will be an issue. The only reason the single quotes were an issue was because I use them as my html string identifiers. It was ending my attribute value early. Curly quotes shouldn't do that.

Much thanks!