Apostrpohe and quote nightmare!

[AndyGroom]

I understand that apostrophe's and speechmarks can both be used in Javascript to identify a string, and that you should use a backslash to identify an apostrophe as an apostrophe rather than a string delimiter. However, I've got this line of code below and I can't get my head around how to make the syntax correct so that when the line is written to a new page it will work, can someone help?

  document.write("<a href='javascript:navigateto('" + loc + "')'>");

(I've not back-slashed anything so that I can see where they should go in whoever answers answer!)

- Andy
___________________________________________________________________
If you think nobody cares you're alive, try missing a couple of mortgage payments

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Personally, I always use double quotes for HTML attributes:

document.write('<a href="javascript:navigateto(\'' + loc + '\')">');

Dan



Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions

Dan's Page [blue]@[/blue] Code Couch:

http://www.codecouch.com/dan/

Code Couch Tech Snippets & Info:

http://www.codecouch.com/

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

P.S. While we're on the subject of apostrophes, you do not use an apostrophe to denote a plural as you have:

I understand that apostrophe's

Dan



Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions

Dan's Page [blue]@[/blue] Code Couch:

http://www.codecouch.com/dan/

Code Couch Tech Snippets & Info:

http://www.codecouch.com/

 

[AndyGroom]

It should be apostrophies, right? Damn, and I've got an A-Level in English too...

- Andy
___________________________________________________________________
If you think nobody cares you're alive, try missing a couple of mortgage payments

 

[trollacious]

Try apostrophes.

Lee

 

[JA3395]

Personally I don't bother with escaping (backslashing) quotes in this type of usage, I find it much harder to maintain in the long term, especially if someone else has to maintain the code!

I use concatenation techniques:

document.write("<a href=" + '"' + "javascript:navigateto('" + loc + "'" + '"' + "); >somewhere</a>");

 

[feherke]

Hi

It may be easier to maintain it later, but you failed to write it right for the first time. The string resulted from that expression is not valid HTML :

<a href="javascript:navigateto('locvalue'"); >somewhere</a>

Personally I always write it as Dan suggested.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I find it much harder to maintain in the long term, especially if someone else has to maintain the code!

I don't think I'd be handing my code to someone who couldn't work out the simple matter of escaping quotes!

Dan



Coedit Limited - Delivering standards compliant, accessible web solutions

Dan's Page [blue]@[/blue] Code Couch:

http://www.codecouch.com/dan/

Code Couch Tech Snippets & Info:

http://www.codecouch.com/