Link using onclick and special chars

[chrisw09]

I have the following link that calls a javacript function. This works perfectly fine unless the input value has a ' in it, for example Gary's books.

<a href="#" onclick="rename('test');">

I tried using encodeURI in the onclick="" but the quotes are still causing me grief. I hope i'm explaining this well enough.

Any suggestions?

 

[cLFlaVA]

escape it.

<a href="#" onclick="rename('Gary[red]\'[/red]s Book');">

*cLFlaVA
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[tt]"quote goes here"[/tt]
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

 

[chrisw09]

Sorry it's early, i should have explained better. the data is coming from a database. This is my actual url:

<a href="#" onclick="rename('${list.id}','${list.name}');">Rename</a>

I'm passing this to a javascript function that displays a form field for the user to rename the value and submit back to the database. Since the user is allowed to use any characters they want, the ' gives a javascript error.

 

[cLFlaVA]

then you will need to replace ' with \' using whatever server-side scripting you're using (php, probably).



*cLFlaVA
----------------------------
[tt]"quote goes here"[/tt]
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.coryarthus.com/[/url]

 

[chrisw09]

That's what i ended up doing. i was hoping to do it all with javascript...