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JavaScript: Single quote ' causes error

I have a string with a ' inside it:

<a href="#" onclick="if (confirm('... &#039; ...')) { document.exampleFormName.submit(); }">example link text</a>

Unfortunately this does not seem to work. Firebug says "SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list" and you can see that the HTML entity has already been replaced by '.

What can I do to avoid this problem?

Solution

  • Try this

    <a href='#' onclick='if (confirm("... &#039; ...")) 
{ 
  document.exampleFormName.submit(); 
}'> example link text
</a>

    Because "#039" stands for single quote so ('...'...') in your previous code would fail because of this reason