Hi I have a problem with a javascript string
var foo = \"<a href="javascript(foo('a','b'))">test</a>\"
This sentence gives me an error
I could have escaped inner " but I am not allowed to change <a href="javascript(foo('a','b'))">test</a> this part
Is there any way to handle this condition?
Thanks, Sourabh
Several years later, this is now possible with String.raw()
let foo = String.raw`<a href="javascript(foo('a','b'))">test</a>`
@ it works in my Node v10.15.3 and Chrome 74.0.3729.131 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10.
No, you need to escape the string somehow.
var foo = "<a href=\"javascript(foo('a','b'))\">test</a>";
or
var foo = '<a href="javascript(foo(\'a\',\'b\'))">test</a>';
Either escape the quotes within JavaScript:
var foo = "<a href=\"javascript(foo('a','b'))\">test</a>";
var foo = "<a href=\x22javascript(foo('a','b'))\x22>test</a>";
var foo = '<a href="javascript(foo(\'a\',\'b\'))">test</a>';
var foo = '<a href="javascript(foo(\x27a\x27,\x27b\x27))">test</a>';
Or escape the quotes within HTML:
var foo = '<a href="javascript(foo('a','b'))">test</a>';
There is no way to have characters in the string get escaped without escaping them in the string, such as using @-quoted that C# has. for example
string myString = @""Good Morning", said Dave's mother";
You need to escape the characters in the string in JavaScript using \ character.
This forum topic seems to have an 'interesting' alternative, at least. It uses multiline comments inside an anonymous function to enable strings containing both " and ', as well as multiline strings.
Edit: According to bucabay (in the comments below), this method no longer works, at least in Firefox 3.5.
No, there is no way. As the part that you are not allowed to change contains both quotation marks and apostrophes, there is no way to represent it as a string literal in Javascript without changing it.
Perhaps you can put it as a CData literal in an XML island in the page, and let the Javascript read it from there...
