Using double quotes in an HTML page's input's value

Question

How can I include double quotes in an HTML page's input's value?

Eg: <input name="locations[]" value="["SFO","SJO","LA"]">

I need double quotes there, because this is a json array. But it wont work. Changing it to ' causes errors in the json.

I'm using <!DOCTYPE html>. Can this be done somehow?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '14 at 09:06

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You need to encode the value using html entities.

HTML Entity for " is "

So, in your case, the result would look like this:

<input name="locations[]" value="["SFO","SJO","LA"]">

answered Sep 08 '14 at 09:06

poncha

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 08 '14 at 09:07

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You may try this:

<input name="locations[]" value="[&quot;SFO&quot;,&quot;SJO&quot;,&quot;LA&quot;]">

" is processed as " which is ISO 8859-1 equivalent of ". You may also refer this

answered Sep 08 '14 at 09:07

Rahul Tripathi

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