esc_attr() WP 1.0

Escaping for HTML attributes.

Hooks from function:

Return

String.

Usage

esc_attr( $text );

$text(string) (required)

Code of esc_attr: wp-includes/formatting.php ^{VER 4.9.8}

<?php
function esc_attr( $text ) {
	$safe_text = wp_check_invalid_utf8( $text );
	$safe_text = _wp_specialchars( $safe_text, ENT_QUOTES );
	/**
	 * Filters a string cleaned and escaped for output in an HTML attribute.
	 *
	 * Text passed to esc_attr() is stripped of invalid or special characters
	 * before output.
	 *
	 * @since 2.0.6
	 *
	 * @param string $safe_text The text after it has been escaped.
 	 * @param string $text      The text prior to being escaped.
	 */
	return apply_filters( 'attribute_escape', $safe_text, $text );
}

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