Quotation marks in textarea placeholder

Question

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.

Skutchan

Possible duplicate of How to properly escape quotes inside html attributes? – Ophthalmologist

Answer 1

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

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

Lunulate

I guess that that is the easiest.... but out of curiosity, is there no backslash method to force characters? – Skutchan

@PaulClift — \ has no special meaning in HTML. – Ophthalmologist