Forward slashes escaped in JSON

• Syaho

• September 29, 2021 at 11:05 am

I think this is a bug. I have a textarea in wp-admin, based on ACF. When I enter three lines, I get the following JSON:

{"somed":"<h2>Thing<\/h2>\n<h1>Interesting<\/h1>\n<p>Expiring<\/p>\n"}

As you can see, <\/h2> is not valid. It seems like there is a bug.

How can we get this fixed?

• John Huebner

• October 22, 2021 at 4:56 pm

This is how your cone is represented in JSON.

Do this somewhere echo json_encode('<h1>Some Text</h1>');

and you will see that the output is "<h1>Some Text<\/h1>"

special characters must be escaped in json