Characters javascript

Question

I have this

<?php
    echo "<script> $('#new-agency').click(function(){
         $('#AgencyTable').append('<tr id=/'3/'><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td><input type=/'button/' class=/'updagetAgency/' value=/'Update/'/></td><td><input class=/'addAgency/' type=/'button/' value=/'Add/'/></td></tr>'); 
       });</script>";
?>

I am having problem with it, because of the mixing of ' and " in the same string,

I tried using '/' to escape but it doesn't seem to work, what can I do?

Answer 1

There's no reason here to use PHP! You needn't have an echo call at all.

<script>
    $('#new-agency').click(function(){
         $('#AgencyTable').append("<tr id='3'><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td><input type='button' class='updagetAgency' value='Update'/></td><td><input class='addAgency' type='button' value='Add'/></td></tr>"); 
    });
</script>

The other aspects of this problem:

• inside a string delimited by ", there is no need to escape ' characters, and vice versa so we use " to delimit the string and ' for the quotes inside it
• the escaping character is actually the backslash \, not the forward slash /.