[thelist] Escaping quotes in a hidden input's value

[Joshua Olson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tab Alleman
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 1:32 PM
>
> Joshua Olson wrote:
>
> > Try switching the outside quotes to single quotes:
> >
> > <input type="hidden" name="Title" value='"I Loved It!"'>
>
> 1)  Is this xHTML compliant?

No.  The only way to make it compliant is to escape the quotes... a
technique you've already indicated an aversion to  :-)  There's simply no
pleasing some people.

> 2)  What if I want <input type="hidden" name="Title" value='"It's The
> Bomb!"'>?  Then don't I have to escape the single-quote?  How would I do
> that?
>
> 3)  I'd really rather not break my own coding convention of
> property="value" if I can possibly avoid it.

It may be time to start escaping.

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Joshua Olson
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WAE Tech Inc.
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