No That wont work because I need to preserve the apostrophe in for the UI, I've tried using the HTML equiv (') but it causes the same problem. __________________________________________ Phil Winstanley Software Creations (Holdings) Ltd "The client will change their minds. Its not because they are lower forms of life, they just are never clear on what they want." ___________________________________________ ICQ: 29163700 <http://www.creations.co.uk/> http://www.creations.co.uk/ phil.winstanley at creations.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Burton-Vulovic [mailto:nvulovic at altamira.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:07 PM To: javascript at LaTech.edu Subject: Re: [Javascript] Apostrophise in JavaScript Functions (ASP created) Can you use a backslash or some other character to indicate a literal (ie replace any ' with \' ) as one does in Perl? N Below is some HTML code, notice the 3rd passed parameter when calling the onClick and it contains a text string ... With an apostrophise I need to keep the apostrophise visually but lose it to code - what did people come up with ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20010703/171ef256/attachment.htm>