i have two text boxes, 1 is working fine with quotes and single quotes (i have it setup to remove slashes addslashes and use htmlspecialchars correctly) the other isn't working exactly right, it returns the / char, and the single quote but it chucks the double quote. there's a lot of code to print so i was seeing if anyone knew of a reason why only the double quotes would not show, it's like they are completely taken out :S any ideas? thanks