I am assigning a value to a text box, the value may contain special characters such as an apostorphe, I just can't get it! the values are taken from a database via php. for example: $Text = "this ' is ' a ' test" of course if I use

<?php
echo "<input type='text' value = $Text/>"
?>

The result in my text box is "this "

How can I get this done?

Use a correctly formatted attribute value that is enclosed in quotemarks, otherwise the spaces (and the apostrophes) become the value delimiters ( a space is a delimiter in HTML)

echo "<input type=\"text\" value =\"$Text\"/>"

Thx Chris, just could not get my head around it. Do you ever sleep?