Title: Escaping htmlentities
Last modified: April 13, 2022
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# Escaping htmlentities
* Resolved [annettepixie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annettepixie/)
* (@annettepixie)
* [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escaping-htmlentities/)
* Hi,
I’m using 2 radio button merge fields to record consent for privacy and
emails – the GDPR Compliance for Mailchimp plugin only provides one checkbox
for email consent so I can’t use that.
* The radio button option ( I convert to checkboxes via javascript ) includes a
single quote which Mailchimp converts to html entities `& #39;` The form submission
is failing as the json sent to Mailchimp is escaping it `\\ & #39;`
* Example of json response:
`Value must be one of: I agree to my personal data
being stored by MailChimp and used for the distribution of the XXXs& #39; weekly
insights newsletter. (not I agree to my personal data being stored by MailChimp
and used for the distribution of the XXXs\\& #39; weekly insights newsletter.)`
* Is there anything I can do in a filter to correct this?
* Also, is there any way to add html to the form before the submit button other
than javascript?
* Thanks
- This topic was modified 4 years ago by [annettepixie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annettepixie/).
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* [jpowersdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpowersdev/)
* (@jpowersdev)
* [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escaping-htmlentities/#post-15555654)
* Hi [@annettepixie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annettepixie/),
* We have a fairly extensive list of [filters](https://yikesplugins.com/knowledge-base/filters/)
and [actions](https://yikesplugins.com/knowledge-base/hooks/) that you can hook.
* That being said, there shouldn’t be a space in `& #39;`. If you find a way to
get rid of that, it should be correctly treated as a single quote.
* Let me know if that helps,
Jon
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by [jpowersdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpowersdev/).
Reason: It was decoding the html entity
* Thread Starter [annettepixie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annettepixie/)
* (@annettepixie)
* [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escaping-htmlentities/#post-15555833)
* Hi [@jpowersdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpowersdev/)
* Thanks for the reply – I had to edit my question and put in a space in `& #39;`
as it was being converted to a single quote `'` even though I’d put it in code
blocks – there wasn’t a space in the actual json response.
* For anyone with a similar issue, I used the yikes-mailchimp-filter-before-submission
filter and htmlentities() on the single quote.
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* Last activity: [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escaping-htmlentities/#post-15555833)
* Status: resolved