> I have a form that allows the user to edit data in the database.
> Let's now say that data looks like this:
> 
> 14'6" cable
> 
> Now, how does one handle the FORM element INPUT TYPE="text" 
> with a prefilled value in here?
> 
> value="#data#" will only show: 14'6 in the text box.
> value='#data#' will only show: 14 in the text box.
> 
> Am I supposed to double-up the quote marks or something? 

Yes.

> Seems like people should be running into this all the time.  
> Maybe I just am not googling for it properly.

I don't know, there just isn't that much to it. If you have double quotes in
a double-quote-delimited string, you need to double them.

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