# HTML encoding in draft titles

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-encoding-in-draft-titles/347029
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** fixed
**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-encoding-in-draft-titles/347029 "2025-01-14T10:03:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-encoding-in-draft-titles/347029/1 "2025-01-14T10:03:24Z")

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Draft titles containing special characters such as `'", &` or emojis are more challenging to read.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a new topic draft and paste the following text into the title field:  
`Drafts don't like "special" characters like & in titles`
2. Add some text to the body so the draft is saved.
3. Navigate to `my/activity/drafts` (e.g., via the “My drafts” link in the sidebar).
4. Observe that the title is displayed as:  
`Drafts don&#x27;t like &quot;special&quot; characters like &amp; in titles`  
instead of the expected:  
`Drafts don't like "special" characters like & in titles`.

 ![Screenshot_20250114_101819_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/3/f/63fba22b76139cbb93fd2f8986e6204c4dce645d.jpeg)

This also affects drafts for replies. When you draft a reply to [🇩🇪 Fehler in der Deutschen Übersetzung? Hier melden! - #101 by Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/de-fehler-in-der-deutschen-ubersetzung-hier-melden/47320/101?silent=true), you see:

 ![Screenshot_20250114_094941_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/2/7/427480c1225e97db3af067ab1d78ef674add5d44.jpeg)

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### Author: ![lindsey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lindsey/32/318210_2.png) [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-encoding-in-draft-titles/347029/3 "2025-01-14T16:31:12Z")

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Thanks for noting this, @Moin — we’re planning some work on the drafts list soon and have noted that this should be fixed at that time.

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-encoding-in-draft-titles/347029/4 "2025-09-08T15:18:34Z")

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A post was split to a new topic: [Escaping html encoding in group activity](https://meta.discourse.org/t/escaping-html-encoding-in-group-activity/381936)

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-encoding-in-draft-titles/347029/5 "2025-09-08T15:44:40Z")

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Fixed 🎉

 ![Screenshot_20250908_174149_Firefox](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/7/e/b7e256c1f099dd421e13e19e50037912c8b0300e.jpeg)

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-encoding-in-draft-titles/347029/6 "2025-09-22T15:00:35Z")

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