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HTML and Handlebars:

onclick='shareItem({{name}})'>

Does not successfully pass a safely escaped name when it has double quotes in it.

onclick=shareItem('{{name}}')>

Does not successfully pass a safely escaped name when it has single quotes in it.

I need to handle both eventualities- and even in the same string.

It feels sloppy to have to define a JS variable and pass it to a backslash adder.

Is there a cleaner way to do this with Handlebars or Moustache?

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answered 10 Years ago katelynn · Accepted Answer

You need to register a inline helper that manipulates the context. In your case, you need to escape a single or double quote.

Handlebars.registerHelper('escape', function(variable) {

  return variable.replace(/(['])/g, '\$1');

});

By registering such helper, you can use it with a variable to achieve what you want.

{{ escape name }} # expects to escape any ' or

I wrote a simple example to demonstrate this on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/VLy4L/