Getting around the style manager escaping everything

[dan1088352]

I'm trying to write a custom template in VB and I'm noticing that it escapes double quotes, slashes and things like that. How do I get around this? I kinda need to use double quotes without slashes around them...

[kh99]

It's not so much the style manager as it is html - some characters need to be encoded, like double quotes - you need to use " where you want them. Here's a list of encodings for other characters (most of which you'll never need). http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

[dan1088352]

I need to make stuff like

<tag attr="stuff here" /> and it comes out as <tag attr=\"stuff here\" /> and breaks the HTML. So far I've been using single quotes but I'm in a position where that's impossible, I can't escape my single quotes to keep the string either because \' turns into \\'.

[kh99]

Oh, OK, I misunderstood - I don't think that should be happening. Does it happen on any template you edit?

Edit: And you see if after you fetch and eval() the template? It will normally look that way in the database.

[dan1088352]

It ended up being due to some code I inherited from the last coder. It's all working now.