diff --git a/src/render.ts b/src/render.ts
index 7335261..3ff3130 100644
--- a/src/render.ts
+++ b/src/render.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { Node, Nodeish, HTMLNode } from "./node.ts";
 import { EmptyElements } from "./emptyElements.ts";
 import { Attr } from "./attributes.ts";
 import { isState } from "./state.ts";
-import { Falsy, isFalsy, escapeHTML } from "./util.ts";
+import { Falsy, isFalsy, escapeAttr, escapeTextNode } from "./util.ts";
 import { guessEnv } from "./guessEnv.ts";
 import { HtmlElement } from "./domTypes.ts";
 
@@ -28,14 +28,14 @@ function attrifyHTML(attrs: AttributeObject, prefix = ""): string {
 			if (typeof value === "boolean")
 				if (value) return `${prefix + attr}`;
 				else return "";
-			if (value) return `${prefix + attr}="${value}"`;
+			if (value) return `${prefix + attr}="${escapeAttr(String(value))}"`;
 		})
 		.join(" ");
 }
 
 export function renderHTML(node: Nodeish): string {
 	if (isFalsy(node)) return "";
-	if (typeof node === "string") return escapeHTML(node);
+	if (typeof node === "string") return escapeTextNode(node);
 	if (node instanceof HTMLNode) return node.htmlString;
 	if (isState(node)) return renderHTML(node.init);
 
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ const toDOM = function toDOM<N extends Nodeish>(
 	opts: { emptyTextNodes?: boolean } = {},
 ): "" | ChildNode | HtmlElement {
 	if (typeof node === "string" && (node !== "" || opts.emptyTextNodes))
-		return document.createTextNode(escapeHTML(node));
+		return document.createTextNode(node);
 	if (isFalsy(node)) return "";
 	if (node instanceof HTMLNode) return htmlStringToElement(node.htmlString);
 	if (isState(node)) {
diff --git a/src/util.ts b/src/util.ts
index bdf9100..00dee2a 100644
--- a/src/util.ts
+++ b/src/util.ts
@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ const escapables = {
 	'"': "&quot;",
 };
 
-export const escapeHTML = (s: string) =>
+export const escapeAttr = (s: string) =>
 	s.replace(/<|>|&|"|'/g, r => escapables[r as keyof typeof escapables] || r);
 
+export const escapeTextNode = (s: string) =>
+	s.replace(/<|>|&/g, r => escapables[r as keyof typeof escapables] || r);
+
 export type Falsy = false | "" | 0 | 0n | undefined | null;
 
 export const Falsy = new Set([false, "", 0, 0n, undefined, null]);
diff --git a/test.ts b/test.ts
index 19be201..d5cbcc9 100644
--- a/test.ts
+++ b/test.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,25 @@ Deno.test({
 	},
 });
 
+Deno.test({
+	name: "renderHTML simple -- escaping attribute and text nodes",
+	fn: () => {
+		assertEquals(
+			renderHTML(
+				div(
+					{
+						id: "hello",
+						class: "world",
+						style: `content: '"&"</div>'`,
+					},
+					"<'\"Hello&world\"'>",
+				),
+			),
+			`<div id="hello" class="world" style="content: &#39;&quot;&amp;&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&#39;">&lt;'"Hello&amp;world"'&gt;</div>`,
+		);
+	},
+});
+
 assertEquals(
 	renderHTML(
 		div(