[Resolved] Do I need to escape a single quote?

[Volitics]

I'm working on a JavaScript pop-up window for one of my pages.

The JavaScript for the URL link has single quotes in the string (see below).

Right now I am not backslashing the single quote marks. The script is outputting on the page and everything. In other words, it seems to be working alright without escaping the single quote marks.

// This is the URL to the big picture.
    <a href="#" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('./directory/to/image/image1.jpg','automobile','width=902,height=599')">

// This is the image source for the thumbnail.    

<img src="directory/to/image/image1.jpg" width="100" height="66" border="0"></a>
    

Does anybody know is there a reason I would need to backslash or escape the single quote marks?

In other words, would there be some browsers where the script would crash if it visited the page?

I had this (JavaScript) code on a web page several months ago. I'm just now starting to work the same code into the new page I'm working on. A few months ago I remember that JavaScript sometimes gets stubbon and won't work if you try to put foreign code (backslashes) into the JavaScript string.

I would appreciate any info that anyone could provide.

Thanks.

[tekky]

you need to escape quotes in the following situations...

//1) double quotes (") when used inside a string contained in double quotes ie:
$string = "this string contains double quotes like \"so\" and needs to be escaped";

//2) single quotes (') when used inside a string contained in single quotes ie:
$string = 'this string contains single quotes like \'so\' and needs to be escaped';

$string = 'this string contains double quotes like "so" and does not need to be escaped';

$string = "this string contains single quotes like 'so' and does not need to be escaped";

so if you are putting the Jscript into variables... you may have to depending on which type of quotes you encapsulate the Jscript with 😉

[Volitics]

tekky;

Thanks for responding to my problem.

I appreciate the help.

[tekky]

Originally posted by Volitics
tekky;

Thanks for responding to my problem.

I appreciate the help.

no problem

dont forget to Mark thread resolved if you're all good 😉