Function Reference/esc html

Description

Escaping for HTML blocks.

<?php esc_html( $text ) ?>

$text

(string) (required) Text to escape

Default: None

$html = esc_html( '<a href="http://www.example.com/">A link</a>' );

$html now contains this:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com/&quot;&gt;A link&lt;/a&gt;

Which would be displayed in an HTML document as:

<a href="http://www.example.com/">A link</a>

Instead of this:

Uses the 'esc_html' filter.
To safely display processed html, use either the 'wp_kses' or 'wp_kses_post' function.
This function will not double-escape special characters. For instance, echo esc_html( 'A & B' ); will print A & B, instead of A &amp; B

esc_html() is located in wp-includes/formatting.php.

See: Data Validation article for an in-depth discussion of input and output sanitization.

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