Can I simply use htmlspecialchars instead of esc_attr?
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esc_attr() is written specifically for escaping a string that is to be used as an html attribute, which means also escaping single and double-quote characters etc. In general, it's better to use the data validation API that WP provides rather than the generic PHP functions. |
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