# Double Escaping in the Panel

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/double-escaping-in-the-panel/10047>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v2\
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/double-escaping-in-the-panel/10047 "2018-03-21T15:46:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![texnixe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/texnixe/32/5754_2.png) [@texnixe](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/texnixe)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/double-escaping-in-the-panel/10047/2 "2018-03-21T15:59:31Z")

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Actually, `esc()`shouldn’t really be used for user input like that.

@ezraverheijen wrote about this [here](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/to-escape-or-not-to-escape/9827) recently.

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