How Do I Remove Forward Slash asin null text box?

[KevMull]

Sorry for the noob question but my form text boxes are all showing a '/' (forward slash) by default.

I've tried the function stripslashes() which doesn't seem to work in this case.

 

How can I set the default values to null?

 

Many Thanks

[samshel]

some code please

[KevMull]

It's just a basic html text box...

 

</php...

$firstName =  $_POST['firstName'];

?>

.....

<form>

<input type="text" name="firstName" value=<?php print $firstName ?>

......

</form>

 

A '/' is always shown as the initial value

 

 

[samshel]

always enclose value attribute in quotes, also close input tag with ">"

 

</php...
$firstName =  $_POST['firstName'];
?>
.....
<form>
<input type="text" name="firstName" value="<?php print $firstName ?>">
......
</form>

[KevMull]

Many thanks, that fixed it.