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Hi
I have a metatags channel to allow the user to enter their own metatags via the custom field group form.  However, my html is not validating correctly because if they use the & character is not rewritten as &.  Is their a way of encoding the text entry so all & are changed to &s when written to the page??  My code is as follows:

{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_tags" limit="1" dynamic="no" disable="categories|member_data|pagination" url_title="{embed:the_url_title}" }
<title>{title_tag}</title>
<meta id="description" name="description" content="{meta_description}" />  
<meta id="keywords" name="keywords" content="{meta_keywords}" /> 
 {/exp:channel:entries}

Thanks

When you say “written to the page”, where do you mean? Into the title tag that appears at the top of the browser? Or in the HTML you see as you view source?

Hey Lorna,

Can you try wrapping the tag you want processed inside the {exp:xml_encode} tag pair? e.g:

{exp:xml_encode}
{title}
{/exp:xml_encode}

That should convert any special characters (’&’) into html entities (’&’) and fix your validation issues

Hope this helps,
Chuck

Excellent thanks Chuck - that worked 😊

No problem, glad to be of help 😊

Glad to see that helped. Please post again as needed.