Prevent HTML Decoding on Form Values

Question

I have a form element such as: <input type="text" value="O’Reilly" />

But when this form is submitted, the value passed to the form handler is decoded and the ’ character is sent instead of the original string ’

I need to get the original string in it's literal/raw form, but I cannot seem to force the page to stop decoding these HTML elements for me. Any ideas?

jakber · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-28 15:19:41Z

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HTML-encode the ampersand with & to prevent it from being part of an escape sequence: <input type="text" value="O&rsquo;Reilly" />

edited Mar 28, 2013 at 15:19

answered Mar 28, 2013 at 14:08

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Brad Over a year ago

that doesn't help if the value is determined by the user. Seems rather odd that decoding happens when a form is submitted it should just send the value and do nothing to it.

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