Widget textarea input gets formatted

Question

I've built a small widget for my website
It has a couple of inputs, and a <textarea> among others.
Whenever someone inputs to the textarea it adds a tab at the begining
and changes every ' to \'
After a couple of times I save the same input,
I just get sentences that were

It's nice

to

It\\\\'s nice

the code for the Textrea:

         <textarea rows="5" cols="40" id="cat_<?php echo $i ?>_text" name="cat_<?php echo $i ?>_text">
        <?php echo $text ?>
        </textarea>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try stripslashes to remove the backslash.

echo stripslashes( $text );

This is going to replace one slash per slashes group only though, you should first reset all the contents that have multiple slashes.

I guess the tab at the beginning is due to the fact that you jump a line before echoing the text. Try this instead :

<textarea rows="5" cols="40" id="cat_<?php echo $i ?>_text" name="cat_<?php echo $i ?>_text"><?php echo stripslashes( $text ); ?></textarea>