diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index cdeffd635..df74d8e45 100755
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@
 		"cross-spawn": "^7.0.3",
 		"debug": "^4.3.6",
 		"dependency-graph": "^1.0.0",
+		"entities": "^5.0.0",
 		"fast-glob": "^3.3.2",
 		"filesize": "^10.1.4",
 		"graceful-fs": "^4.2.11",
diff --git a/src/Plugins/IdAttributePlugin.js b/src/Plugins/IdAttributePlugin.js
index 3afc03339..df5e2a2fe 100644
--- a/src/Plugins/IdAttributePlugin.js
+++ b/src/Plugins/IdAttributePlugin.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import matchHelper from "posthtml-match-helper";
+import { decodeHTML } from "entities";
 
 import slugifyFilter from "../Filters/Slugify.js";
 import MemoizeUtil from "../Util/MemoizeFunction.js";
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ function IdAttributePlugin(eleventyConfig, options = {}) {
 	if (!options.selector) {
 		options.selector = "h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6";
 	}
+	options.decodeEntities = options.decodeEntities ?? true;
 
 	eleventyConfig.htmlTransformer.addPosthtmlPlugin(
 		"html",
@@ -39,7 +41,11 @@ function IdAttributePlugin(eleventyConfig, options = {}) {
 				tree.match(matchHelper(options.selector), function (node) {
 					if (!node.attrs?.id && node.content) {
 						node.attrs = node.attrs || {};
-						let id = options.slugify(getTextNodeContent(node));
+						let textContent = getTextNodeContent(node);
+						if (options.decodeEntities) {
+							textContent = decodeHTML(textContent);
+						}
+						let id = options.slugify(textContent);
 						if (conflictCheck[id]) {
 							conflictCheck[id]++;
 							id = `${id}-${conflictCheck[id]}`;
diff --git a/test/IdAttributePluginTest.js b/test/IdAttributePluginTest.js
index 3d1f9f3c5..6e969f9ca 100644
--- a/test/IdAttributePluginTest.js
+++ b/test/IdAttributePluginTest.js
@@ -17,3 +17,18 @@ test("Using the IdAttribute plugin #3356", async (t) => {
   let results = await elev.toJSON();
 	t.is(results[0].content, `<h1 id="this-is-a-heading">This is a heading</h1><h2 id="already">This is another heading</h2><h2 id="this-is-another-heading">This is another heading</h2><h3 id="this-is-another-heading-2">This is another heading</h3>`);
 });
+
+test("Using the IdAttribute plugin with escaped quoted text", async (t) => {
+  let elev = new Eleventy("./test/stubs-virtual/", "./test/stubs-virtual/_site", {
+    config: function (eleventyConfig) {
+      eleventyConfig.addPlugin(IdAttributePlugin);
+
+      eleventyConfig.addTemplate("test.md", `# This is a \`"heading"\``, {});
+    },
+  });
+
+  elev.disableLogger();
+
+  let results = await elev.toJSON();
+	t.is(results[0].content.trim(), `<h1 id="this-is-a-heading">This is a <code>&quot;heading&quot;</code></h1>`);
+});