Quotation marks in textarea placeholder

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This should be pretty straight forward.... I would like the placeholder text in a textarea to display quotation marks. As in "HELLO".

I tried the usually-reliable "\"Hello\"" but that doesn't work.... it outputs simply \ because it sees that contained between opening and closing quotes.

Possible duplicate of [How to properly escape quotes inside html attributes?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4015345/how-to-properly-escape-quotes-inside-html-attributes) — Quentin, Dec 02 '18 at 17:52

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '18 at 17:47

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You can use " for the quotation mark symbol. For example:

<textarea name="content" placeholder="&quot;Hello&quot;"></textarea>

answered Dec 02 '18 at 17:47

Omari Celestine

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I guess that that is the easiest.... but out of curiosity, is there no backslash method to force characters? – Paul Clift Dec 02 '18 at 17:50
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@PaulClift — ```\``` has no special meaning in HTML. – Quentin Dec 02 '18 at 17:52

Quotation marks in textarea placeholder

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