Question

After I run my script, the input field essentially looks like this:

<input type="text" value="How do you " />

Even if I slash the quotes or change them to " it still doesn’t work.

Any suggestions?

$('input').html(function() {
    var dataVal = 'How do you "feel" about that?';

    return '<input type="text" value="' + dataVal + '" />';
});

Answer 1

Add this after the dataVal definition.

dataVal = dataVal.replace(/"/g,""")

It replaces all " characters by the HTML entity of a quotation mark, fixing your code.

Currently, your parsed HTML looks like this:
<input type="text" value="How do you "feel" about that?" />, which is translated to
<input type="text" value="How do you " />.