single / double quote problem

[KryptoS]

Hello,

I have to following line in my code:

href = "<a href=\"#\" onclick=\"javascript:document.getElementById(' "+getInput+" ').value=' "+city+" ';\">";

All is working fine. Only in some cases I have a city value like = 's City. So href gets the value something like this = .value=' 's City';\">"; You see the problem with the 's.

I tried to replace the ' by \' in city. city.replace(" ' "," \' ");. But it didn't have any effect.

thanks for your help.

Greetings

p.s. I placed some spaces between ' and " to make it more clear

The One And Only KryptoS

 

[BabyJeffy]

You need to double slash it (not a technical term).

...
city.replace("'","[!]\[/!]\'");
...

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[Qik3Coder]

That will only work if the path you are going to has the apostrophe in it, you may need to remove it or replace it with a different character.


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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I don't think there's a path in play here... Notice the "href" attribute isn't being used.

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[KryptoS]

sorry I didn't let you know something. This is working fine. Thanks a lot. I'm always getting confused by those quotes...

The One And Only KryptoS