Escaped nested quotes not working? 1

[JavaSprout]

I am trying to nest quotes as follows, and using the escape character, but I still get a JavaScript error message.

http://www.localpin.com/quote_problem.html

<input type=button value=OK onClick=&quot;javascript:window.opener.return_category(109359, '\&quot;Warburton, Patrick\&quot;');self.close();&quot;>

Any ideas why this doesn't work?
Even better, any ideas how to fix it?!

Thanks!


Hugh Prior
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[RISTMO]

Do this:
<input type=button value=OK onClick='javascript:window.opener.return_category(109359, &quot;\&quot;Warburton, Patrick\&quot;&quot;self.close();'>

The problem was that excaping the &quot; wasn't necessary for the JS--you didn't have any previous &quot; to require escaping this one. However, the HTML saw to start with &quot; and end at the next one, making this the JS it tried to interpret:
javascript:window.opener.return_category(109359, 'That is why there were errors--you can't escape in HTML.

Rick