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Most of the escaping functions in WordPress, with a short explanation and example.

WordPress escaping functions

By: Jonas Nordström, @windyjonas
Date: 2013-04-16

esc_attr( $text );
Encodes the <, >, &, " and ' (less than, greater than, ampersand, double quote and single quote) characters. Will never double encode entities.
Example: