https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apostrophe-in-textarea-field-not-exscapet Gravity Support Forums Topic: Apostrophe in textarea field not escaped en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:09:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apostrophe-in-textarea-field-not-exscapet#post-34973 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:14:38 +0000 Carl Hancock 34973@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@jasoningram Have you followed the instructions above to test for theme and plugin conflicts? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apostrophe-in-textarea-field-not-exscapet#post-34968 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:47:35 +0000 jsoningram 34968@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Apostrophes are showing up as a quotation mark " using version 1.5.2.8 </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apostrophe-in-textarea-field-not-exscapet#post-28969 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:13:33 +0000 Carl Hancock 28969@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We haven't had this reported before and i'm unable to replicate it locally. I'm unable to break a textarea field using apostrophes within the value.</p> <p>Here is a screenshot of my form and what I submitted: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/qo99W.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/qo99W.png</a></p> <p>Here is a screenshot of the entry that was created: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/stXtW.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/stXtW.png</a></p> <p>This could be an issue specific to your site and theme/plugin configuration causing some sort of conflict. The first thing I would suggest is checking for conflicts by following the steps found here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Testing_for_a_Theme/Plugin_Conflict" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Testing_for_a_Theme/Plugin_Conflict</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/apostrophe-in-textarea-field-not-exscapet#post-28923 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:42:27 +0000 storage 28923@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have a form with several textarea fields. If the user enters a contraction such as "doesn't:", the entry gets cut off at the apostrophe. Obviously, the apostrophe is not being escaped properly when stored to MySQL. I'm not seeing a setting to fix this and I'm actually very surprised this is an issue given that this is a very well known issue with MySQL databases.</p> <p>How do I allow my user to enter apostrophes without having to manually escape them? </p>