Replace html with html using Javascript

Question

I want to replace a big section of html code (the content on the side) with other html code.

I have used the JavaScript code below:

document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = "";

The thing is that I can't replace html code that got the "" characters in it. Can someone please help me?

I should ad that I´m a beginner with JavaScript and as of now I want to stay away from jQuery.

Sim1 · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-11 15:28:22Z

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try with

document.getElementById("content").innerHTML ='text to be replaced with "" ';

or with

document.getElementById("content").innerHTML ="text to be replaced with \"\"";

or with

document.getElementById("content").innerHTML ='text to be replaced with \'\'';

( \" is the escape sequence for the character " and in javascript you can use either ' or " for the strings)

answered Mar 11, 2015 at 15:09

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Will be nice to mention that \" or \' are escape sequences. You cloud have a look at MDN.