Option values error when using quotation marks

[sparklefish]

Hi - I want to create an option value (read only) and include the following html within the text: <a class="myclass" href="etc">.

You can save this option value OK, however when you come to assign it to a product you get the following error "Attribute Option and Option Value Do NOT Match - Attribute was not added" (option and option value DO match) because the option value displayed in the drop down list has got jumbled up because of the quotation marks used in the option value.

I can get round this problem by inserting products/attributes directly into the database but obviously this isn't ideal.

Any suggestions?

[kuroi]

Have you tried escaping the quotation marks, i.e. placing a slash ("\") in front of them?

[sparklefish]

Yes I have but it doesn't make any difference. it seems to be a problem with the combination of an html tag and quotes.

[kuroi]

Zen Cart sanitizes most things that go into the database for security reasons. In particular it usually strips out tags to avoid cross scripting attacks. I would be a little surprised at this being done for input via the Admin, but suspect that this may be the case for the options values. In which case you may need to push them directly into the database.