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Problem getting inch and feet characters from form values

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Nov 30.2012

I’m creating a form where basketball coaches can enter their teams roster and then that gets sent to a database which then appears on the rosters page of the site.

My problem is where they select the players height. I don’t want them to enter it as text manually as I want this to be consistent across all rosters, example: 6′ 3″

So I decided to give them a drop down menu to select the height. I go from 4′ 0″ all the way up to 7′ 3″.

But I’m pretty sure I can’t use this:

<select name=”height” >
<option value=”4′ 8″”>4′ 8″</option>

Not sure how to get the foot character and inch character to appear correctly in the results.

Thanks for any help
Steve

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@Grandpa__quot_D_quot_Nov 30.2012 — Inches will be: &#34;

Feet will be: &#39,

Hope this helps! Best to you!
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@rtretheweyDec 01.2012 — You need to escape (encode) the quotation mark in the <option> tag so that the browser knows that you mean to include it in the value and not the end of it. Just precede the quotation mark with a backslash, as in:
<i>
</i>&lt;option value="4' 8""&gt;4' 8"&lt;/option&gt;
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@smk17authorDec 01.2012 — Thanks very much guys, got it to work!
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