novice help! (single quote escaping)

[sankofa]

hi, i can't seem to be able to escape my single quote properly... is it
even possible in javascript?

this is a portion of my code..

var DLEWIS="Pastor Lewis";

.... Sermon is a yser-defined class ..

var en_20031102=new Sermon("11/02",DLEWIS,"T he Lord\'s Supper: The Art Of
Struggle",
"<a
href='http://www.biblegatewa y.com/cgi-bin/bible?language= english&passage =Lam
entations+3%3A1 9-27&version=NIV ' target='_blank' >Lamentations<b r />
3:19-27</a>",
"sermon-20031102-en.m3u","-");


.... and then in the printing function i write the following code:

document.write( "<a href='"+sermonA rray[i].notes+"'><img src='ppt.gif'
alt='");
document.write( sermonArray[i].title+" - "+sermonArr ay[i].speaker+" ||
"+sermonArr ay[i].date+"' /></a>");

for a sample of how it looks, you can go check out:

http://montreal-cac.org/worship/worship_en.html

is anyone able to give me advice? thanks.,.

[Yann-Erwan Perio]

Re: novice help! (single quote escaping)

sankofa wrote:
[color=blue]
> hi, i can't seem to be able to escape my single quote properly... is it
> even possible in javascript?[/color]
[color=blue]
> var en_20031102=new Sermon("11/02",DLEWIS,"T he Lord\'s Supper: The Art Of[/color]

No need to escape the single quote here.
[color=blue]
> document.write( "<a href='"+sermonA rray[i].notes+"'><img src='ppt.gif'
> alt='");[/color]

So you're using single quotes for the attribute quote, and you do have
single quotes in the string being written like in...
[color=blue]
> document.write( sermonArray[i].title+" - "+sermonArr ay[i].speaker+" ||
> "+sermonArr ay[i].date+"' /></a>");[/color]

.... so the quick solution would be to use escaped double quotes for the
HTML attribute quote, starting at

document.write( "<a href=\""+...

More generally, when writing HTML with javascript, you have to determine
whether you need javascript escapes or HTML escapes.

Basically, you can start from the output (HTML) to build your strings.
If you want something like

<tag attr="'foo'">

then you'll have to write something like

document.write( "<tag attr=\"'foo'\"> ");

escaping the double quotes for the attributes for javascript. Inverting
the logic with single quotes work the same way.

Now if you need to have both single and double quotes in the quoted
attribute, your problem is clearly related with the HTML and the quoting
of the attribute, so you'll have to use HTML "escapes", i.e. characters
entities, for instance a desired output could be

<tag title="Hello 'World' and &quot;foo&quot; ">

and the related javascript would be like

document.write( "<tag title=\"Hello 'World' and &quot;foo&quot; \">");

Generally, problems are raised when concatenating strings many times in
javascript; the level of escape increases each time, with makes the code
difficult to maintain. The solution is to maximize the use of
references, concatenating only once.


HTH
Yep.

[Fabian]

Re: novice help! (single quote escaping)

Yann-Erwan Perio hu kiteb:
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> document.write( "<tag attr=\"'foo'\"> ");
>
> escaping the double quotes for the attributes for javascript.
> Inverting the logic with single quotes work the same way.[/color]

This doesn't strictly follow standards, but every browser I know of will
accept an attribute that has no quote proided that the attribute has no
spaces.


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Re: novice help! (single quote escaping)

In article <bokemt$1f2n90$ 1@ID-174912.news.uni-berlin.de>, "Fabian"
<lajzar@hotmail .com> writes:
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>Yann-Erwan Perio hu kiteb:
>[color=green]
>> document.write( "<tag attr=\"'foo'\"> ");
>>
>> escaping the double quotes for the attributes for javascript.
>> Inverting the logic with single quotes work the same way.[/color]
>
>This doesn't strictly follow standards, but every browser I know of will
>accept an attribute that has no quote proided that the attribute has no
>spaces.[/color]

Can you space that attr= part out and tell me which part of it was not quoted?
In fact, it was *double* quoted:

document.write( "<tag attr= \ " ' foo ' \ " >");

Which writes this:
<tag attr=" ' foo ' " >

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[Dr John Stockton]

Re: novice help! (single quote escaping)

JRS: In article <3fad6e9f$0$277 5$626a54ce@news .free.fr>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, Yann-Erwan Perio <y-e.perio@em-lyon.com>
posted at Sat, 8 Nov 2003 23:31:58 :-[color=blue]
>
><tag title="Hello 'World' and &quot;foo&quot; ">
>
>and the related javascript would be like
>
> document.write( "<tag title=\"Hello 'World' and &quot;foo&quot; \">");
>
>Generally, problems are raised when concatenating strings many times in
>javascript; the level of escape increases each time, with makes the code
>difficult to maintain. The solution is to maximize the use of
>references, concatenating only once.[/color]


That may cause confusion; you are using 'concatenation' to mean
'nesting'.

Concatenation : "pig" + 'tail'
Nesting : "n'oeuf'id" or "n\"oeuf\"i d"

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