These are actually input fields. paragraph is the textarea field. i query the contents from database and try to show them in this textarea field. But the textarea field is showing me unwanted comments and tags. When I echo them outtside the textarea field, it is fine.

My code....

 <?php while($userNotes->have_posts()): $userNotes->the_post(); ?>

    <li>
        <input value="<?php echo esc_attr(get_the_title()); ?>" class="note-title-field">

        <span class="edit-note"><i class="fa fa-pencil" aria-hidden="true"></i> Edit</span>

        <span class="delete-note"><i class="fa fa-trash-o" aria-hidden="true"></i> Delete</span>

        <textarea class="note-body-field"><?php echo esc_attr(get_the_content()); ?></textarea>

    </li>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

These are actually input fields. paragraph is the textarea field. i query the contents from database and try to show them in this textarea field. But the textarea field is showing me unwanted comments and tags. When I echo them outtside the textarea field, it is fine.

My code....

 <?php while($userNotes->have_posts()): $userNotes->the_post(); ?>

    <li>
        <input value="<?php echo esc_attr(get_the_title()); ?>" class="note-title-field">

        <span class="edit-note"><i class="fa fa-pencil" aria-hidden="true"></i> Edit</span>

        <span class="delete-note"><i class="fa fa-trash-o" aria-hidden="true"></i> Delete</span>

        <textarea class="note-body-field"><?php echo esc_attr(get_the_content()); ?></textarea>

    </li>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

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• What can you see when you goto edit post? – Vishwa Commented May 7, 2019 at 6:10
• 2 You see tags because of esc_attr() applied to the post content. If you strip tags from content, you lost text formatting ability from editor (bold, italic, paragraph, etc.). – nmr Commented May 7, 2019 at 6:19
• even if i remove esc_attr(), it shows same... I used strip_tags() and it worked but text formatting is lost.. Is there any perfect solution for this? – Bikash Gurung Commented May 7, 2019 at 9:29

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Can you please try this php function html_entity_decode(get_the_content());. I have used this function on php to remove html tags, you can try this.

You can try this:

<textarea class="note-body-field"><?php echo sanitize_text_field(get_the_content()); ?>
</textarea>

I'm also a beginner, but found this works in the frontend. And it seems to be intended for similar use cases - https://developer.wordpress/reference/functions/sanitize_text_field/