Legacy escaping for HTML blocks.

Description

See also

• esc_html()

Parameters

$textstringrequired

Text to escape.

$quote_stylestringoptional

Unused.

Default:ENT_NOQUOTES

$charsetfalse|stringoptional

Unused.

Default:false

$double_encodefalseoptional

Whether to double encode. Unused.

Default:false

Return

Source

function wp_specialchars( $text, $quote_style = ENT_NOQUOTES, $charset = false, $double_encode = false ) {
	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '2.8.0', 'esc_html()' );
	if ( func_num_args() > 1 ) { // Maintain back-compat for people passing additional arguments.
		return _wp_specialchars( $text, $quote_style, $charset, $double_encode );
	} else {
		return esc_html( $text );
	}
}

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