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Asked: 2026-06-16T15:54:10+00:00

I have a web app in which I allow some large text entry using

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I have a web app in which I allow some large text entry using text fields. This text is saved to a database and then later it is sent back to the user as a field in a JSON response. In the browser, I attempt to simply convert it to an Object using JSON.parse, but this sometimes fails depending on what the user put in the field.

I think that right now, the text has single quotes in it, and those are breaking the browser-side Javascript before I can call JSON.parse on it.

What’s the best way to sanitize this data so that, ideally, I can just parse it back to an Object with minimal cleansing after it has been saved?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This isn’t a sanitization problem : you can very well put a string with quotes in JSON : the encoding simply escapes them.

    Your problem is an encoding one. To build a JSON string in a browser, use JSON.stringify. To do it server side, you should use the tool provided by your (unmentionned) server side language/framework.

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