wp-includes/formatting.php:4809Escapes an HTML tag name.
$tag_namestringstringOne hook fires while tag_escape() runs, in this order:
Filters a string cleaned and escaped for output as an HTML tag.
function tag_escape( $tag_name ) { $safe_tag = strtolower( preg_replace( '/[^a-zA-Z0-9-_:]/', '', $tag_name ) ); /** * Filters a string cleaned and escaped for output as an HTML tag. * * @since 2.8.0 * * @param string $safe_tag The tag name after it has been escaped. * @param string $tag_name The text before it was escaped. */ return apply_filters( 'tag_escape', $safe_tag, $tag_name );}Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-includes/formatting.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.