handling double quotes in attribute values

[LenLindquist]

Hello,

I am not an ASP programmer, but I'm using an ASP utility on a Web site and have run into an issue that I believe will require ASP coding to fix. I am familiar with other programming languages, so I may stand a chance of understanding an explanation.

The utility is reading a database field and inserting it into an attribute value of an html tag. This works great, except for when the database field contains a quotation mark. In this case, the browser has trouble interpreting the information.

If anyone has a slick solution, I'd love to see it. I'd settle for the ASP command to replace the double-quote character with NULL as well.

Thanks much,
Len

 

[mwolf00]

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[HectorShuckle]

How about.....


response.write replace(objRS("attribute&quot,""","&qu ot;&quot

without the space between 'u' and 'o', when I previewed this, the &quo t; disappeared, which is probably what happened to mwolf00's

 

[mwolf00]

Actually my code appears correctly. It removes any double quote from a string. I can't imagine any attribute that would have double quotes unless you're attaching javascript events in which case you need the quotes (but different ones)


response.write replace(objRS("attribute&quot, """, "\'&quot Get the Best Answers! faq333-2924
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