meta description quotes escape

html escaping meta-tags
Haim Evgi picture Haim Evgi · Jul 16, 2009 · Viewed 16.9k times · Source

html code meta tag description,

it is generated dynamically and we have quotes in the description part and search engines didn't read everything.

it shows until the quotes begins in the search results

how to deal with it ?

thanks

Answer

Gumbo picture Gumbo · Jul 16, 2009

You need to escape the quotes using HTML character references:

<meta name="description" content="&quot;quoted content&quot;">

The description here is "quoted content".

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