wp-includes/formatting.php:4739Escaping for textarea values.
$textstringstringOne hook fires while esc_textarea() runs, in this order:
Filters a string cleaned and escaped for output in a textarea element.
function esc_textarea( $text ) { $safe_text = htmlspecialchars( $text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option( 'blog_charset' ) ); /** * Filters a string cleaned and escaped for output in a textarea element. * * @since 3.1.0 * * @param string $safe_text The text after it has been escaped. * @param string $text The text prior to being escaped. */ return apply_filters( 'esc_textarea', $safe_text, $text );}Introduced in 3.1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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