# Select tag helper and option values with html entities prob

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/select-tag-helper-and-option-values-with-html-entities-prob/93013>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 26, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/select-tag-helper-and-option-values-with-html-entities-prob/93013 "2007-04-26T17:12:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![rossnet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@rossnet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rossnet)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/select-tag-helper-and-option-values-with-html-entities-prob/93013/1 "2007-04-26T17:12:16Z")

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Hi fellow Rails developers,

I am using option tags with a select form helper. One option values is  
containing a special character quoted as html-entity ( ä ). When I  
provide the option tags to the select tag helper the ampersand gets  
quoted automatically. The result is &auml; which doesn’t look as  
expected. Has anybody an idea how to avoid this quoting?

Thanks,  
thorsten