onClick: Double Quotation Mark Exempt

[Cory]

Notice the single quotation marks highlighted in black? Those have to be double quotation marks in order for the onClick element to return the popup. Is there any possible way to exempt the double quotation marks and still have the onClick element return the popup?

<a href="" onClick='return popup(this, 'DWNL')'></a>

[justsomeguy]

What's the problem with replacing the single quotes with double quotes?

[Cory]

Well, I have to host my HTML (using this method) on a particular page that can hold only so many characters. We have to either use the single quotation marks or the double quotation marks. Personally, I use double quotation marks around the HTML placed within the document.write line, which means I cannot use double quotation marks anywhere else.

[Synook]

You can escape the double quotes in you document.write statement like this:

document.write("<a href=\"\" onclick=\"return popup(this, 'DWNL')\"></a>");

[Cory]

Sorry to bump my old topic, but how would you escape the double quotes in the document.write statement when there is a link inserted in the hyperlink?

[Synook]

Err... example?

[justsomeguy]

Escape all the quotes. If you need to escape the slashes also you can do that too.

document.write("<a href=\"java script:void(0);\" onclick=\"alert('This text is \\\"quoted\\\")');\"></a>");

[Cory]

Can you give an example of that with the link inserted?Like so:

<a href="http://209.85.12.236/7627/25/upload/p7757365.jpg" onClick="return popup(this, 'D')">Preview</a>

I want to escape the quotation marks in that.

[boen_robot]

Can you give an example of that with the link inserted?Like so:

<a href="http://209.85.12.236/7627/25/upload/p7757365.jpg" onClick="return popup(this, 'D')">Preview</a>

I want to escape the quotation marks in that.

I'd do:

document.write('<a href="http://209.85.12.236/7627/25/upload/p7757365.jpg" onClick="return popup(this, \'D\')">Preview</a>');

(i.e. escape only the single quotes inside)If that doesn't work, then

document.write("<a href=\"http://209.85.12.236/7627/25/upload/p7757365.jpg\" onClick=\"return popup(this, 'D')\">Preview</a>");

(pretty much invert the above)