Problem with "onClick" command

[Maria Sudderman]

I have a prblem with the "onClick" command.
onClick="insert('<a href="URI">', '</a>')">

but this is not correct! why?


Maria

 

[d d]

I have a prblem with the "onClick" command.
onClick="insert('<a href="URI">', '</a>')">
but this is not correct! why?
Maria

Nested quotes. Try this:

onClick="insert('<a href=\"URI\">', '</a>')">

~dd

 

[Evertjan.]

Maria Sudderman wrote on 03 jul 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

I have a prblem with the "onClick" command.
onClick="insert('<a href="URI">', '</a>')">

but this is not correct! why?

What kind of function is insert(), javascript????

 

[David Dorward]

Nested quotes. Try this:

onClick="insert('<a href=\"URI\">', '</a>')">

The improper nesting is causing problems at the HTML parsing level,
not the JS level.

onclick="insert('<a href=&quot;URI&quot;>', '</a>')">

.... although I would avoid any JavaScript that accepted raw markup as
input.

 

[Maria Sudderman]

thanks, this is the answer

Nested quotes. Try this:

onClick="insert('<a href=\"URI\">', '</a>')">

The improper nesting is causing problems at the HTML parsing level,
not the JS level.

onclick="insert('<a href=&quot;URI&quot;>', '</a>')">

.... although I would avoid any JavaScript that accepted raw markup as
input.

 

[Richard Cornford]

Nested quotes. Try this:

onClick="insert('<a href=\"URI\">', '</a>')">

In the context of a javascript string literals appearing in an HTML
attribute value it would be safer to transform the inner quotes into
Unicode or hex escape sequences as that renders them unrecognisable to
the HTML parser:-

onclick="insert('<a href=\x22URI\x22>', '</a>')">
-or:-
onclick="insert('<a href=\u0022URI\u0022>', '</a>')">

Richard.