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Using JavaScript single and double quotes for href's

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I am having problem with escaping the single and double quotes inside the hrefs JavaScript function.

I have this JavaScript code inside href. It's like -

<a href = javascript:myFunc(fileDir/fileName.doc, true)> click this </a>

Now, since double quotes inside double quote is not valid, I need to escape the inner double quotes for it to be treated as part of the string -
so, I need to do this -

<a href = javascript:myFunc(fileDir/fileName.doc , true)> click this </a>

The problem is, even the above code is not working. The JavaScript code is getting truncated at -- myFunc(

I tried with the single quote variation too - but even that doesn't seem to work (meaning that if I have a single quote inside my string literal then the code gets truncated).

This is what I did with a single quote:

<a href = 'javascript:myFunc(fileDir/fileName.doc , true)'> click this </a>

This works, but if I have a single quote inside the string then the code gets truncated in the same way as that of double quotes one.

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answered 16 Years ago sabrina · Accepted Answer

Using backslashes to escape quotes is how it works in JavaScript, but you're not actually writing JavaScript code there: you're writing HTML. You can do it by using the HTML escaping method: character entities.

&quot;  // 

&#39;   // '

For example:

<a href=javascript: alert('John O&#39;Brien says &quot;Hi!&quot');>...</a>