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Asked: 2026-06-10T22:17:28+00:00

I have been struggling with this for a while now, somehow JQuery is escaping

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I have been struggling with this for a while now, somehow JQuery is escaping the quotes on the text, that’s ok, but when the string is shown to the user I want to be shown as the user wrote it, here is the simplified code:

Test.PHP

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
    <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="testform" action="testoutput.php" method="post">
        <input type="text" name="data" id="data" />
        <input type="submit" />
    </form>

    <div name="output" id="output"><b>The Output</b></div>

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#testform').submit(function () {
        $data = $('#data').val();
        $.ajax({
            url: 'testoutput.php', 
            type: 'POST',
            data: "data=" + $data,
            success: function(response) {
              $('#output').html(response); 
            }
          });
        return false;
    });
});
</script>

</body>
</html>

testoutput.php

<?php
    $data = $_POST['data'];

    echo $data;
?>

Now, if in the form I write something like “Ok” the output will show \”Ok\” I had trying things like:

$data = escape($('#data').val());

in order to avoid the quotes even being there when the request is sent, but somehow the ajax request is also escaping that, am I missing something here?

I don’t mind the escaping, but why is JQuery doing this, why is this encode/decode/escape stuff happening in the background?

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  1. Editorial Team

    stripslashes is probably the tool you need, but make sure you TEST for magic quotes being on before removing slashes.

    If you ever transport your code to a new system that has a different config, then you’ll have a heck of a time tracking it down..

    if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
    // Do your stripslashes here.
}

    http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-magic-quotes-gpc.php

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