Javascript double quote escape character?

[Alden Streeter]

Here is the HTML that is being output by my asp page:

<a href='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
target='_blank' onMouseOver="window.status='Click for a larger image of
MONITOR, 19\" CODAR EAGLE.';return true;"
onMouseOut="window.status='';return true;">
<img width='98' height='96' border='0'
src='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
alt='MONITOR, 19" CODAR EAGLE'></a>

Notice the \" . AFAIK this escape character is what I am supposed to do to
use a double quote in a string in javascript. But my browser (IE 6.0)
doesn't like it - it says it is an "unterminated string constant".

If I change the double quote to a single quote - \' - then the browser works
as expected: it shows 19' in the status bar. But the monitor I am
describing is really only 19 inches, not 19 feet, so that's not a real
option.

So am I using the escape character wrong, or have I just run into a bug in
IE6?

[Bob Barrows]

Alden Streeter wrote:

Here is the HTML that is being output by my asp page:

<a
href='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
target='_blank' onMouseOver="window.status='Click for a larger image
of MONITOR, 19\" CODAR EAGLE.';return true;"
onMouseOut="window.status='';return true;"> <img width='98'
height='96' border='0'
src='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
alt='MONITOR, 19" CODAR EAGLE'></a>

Notice the \" . AFAIK this escape character is what I am supposed to
do to use a double quote in a string in javascript. But my browser
(IE 6.0) doesn't like it - it says it is an "unterminated string
constant".

If I change the double quote to a single quote - \' - then the
browser works as expected: it shows 19' in the status bar. But the
monitor I am describing is really only 19 inches, not 19 feet, so
that's not a real option.

So am I using the escape character wrong, or have I just run into a
bug in IE6?

I got it working by doing this:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var msg='Click for a larger image of MONITOR, 19" CODAR EAGLE.'
-->
</script>
<a href='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
target='_blank'
onMouseOver="window.status=msg;return true;"
onMouseOut="window.status='';return true;">
<img width='98' height='96' border='0'
src='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
alt='MONITOR, 19" CODAR EAGLE'></a>

HTH,
Bob Barrows

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[Alden Streeter]

Thanks! That worked.

I still think it is a bug in IE6 though that the double quote escape
character didn't work, because it does work with the single quote.

"Bob Barrows" <re******@NOyahoo.SPAMcom> wrote in message
news:ug**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Alden Streeter wrote:

Here is the HTML that is being output by my asp page:

<a
href='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
target='_blank' onMouseOver="window.status='Click for a larger image
of MONITOR, 19\" CODAR EAGLE.';return true;"
onMouseOut="window.status='';return true;"> <img width='98'
height='96' border='0'
src='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
alt='MONITOR, 19" CODAR EAGLE'></a>

Notice the \" . AFAIK this escape character is what I am supposed to
do to use a double quote in a string in javascript. But my browser
(IE 6.0) doesn't like it - it says it is an "unterminated string
constant".

If I change the double quote to a single quote - \' - then the
browser works as expected: it shows 19' in the status bar. But the
monitor I am describing is really only 19 inches, not 19 feet, so
that's not a real option.

So am I using the escape character wrong, or have I just run into a
bug in IE6?

I got it working by doing this:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var msg='Click for a larger image of MONITOR, 19" CODAR EAGLE.'
-->
</script>
<a href='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
target='_blank'
onMouseOver="window.status=msg;return true;"
onMouseOut="window.status='';return true;">
<img width='98' height='96' border='0'
src='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
alt='MONITOR, 19" CODAR EAGLE'></a>

HTH,
Bob Barrows

--
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET
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[Peter Foti]

"Alden Streeter" <as****************@srca.net> wrote in message
news:es**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Here is the HTML that is being output by my asp page:

<a href='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
target='_blank' onMouseOver="window.status='Click for a larger image of
MONITOR, 19\" CODAR EAGLE.';return true;"
onMouseOut="window.status='';return true;">
<img width='98' height='96' border='0'
src='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
alt='MONITOR, 19" CODAR EAGLE'></a>

Notice the \" . AFAIK this escape character is what I am supposed to do to use a double quote in a string in javascript. But my browser (IE 6.0)
doesn't like it - it says it is an "unterminated string constant".

If I change the double quote to a single quote - \' - then the browser works as expected: it shows 19' in the status bar. But the monitor I am
describing is really only 19 inches, not 19 feet, so that's not a real
option.

So am I using the escape character wrong, or have I just run into a bug in
IE6?

You are using the escape character wrong. This is not a bug. You need to
use &quot; instead. As in:

....
MONITOR, 19&quot; CODAR EAGLE';return true;"

See this portion of the HTML spec for more info on this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/...html#h-B.3.2.1

Regards,
Peter Foti

[Alden Streeter]

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"Alden Streeter" <as****************@srca.net> wrote in message
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Here is the HTML that is being output by my asp page:

<a href='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
target='_blank' onMouseOver="window.status='Click for a larger image of
MONITOR, 19\" CODAR EAGLE.';return true;"
onMouseOut="window.status='';return true;">
<img width='98' height='96' border='0'
src='Files/category/computers/bigimages/computers-sub-monitors.jpg'
alt='MONITOR, 19" CODAR EAGLE'></a>

Notice the \" . AFAIK this escape character is what I am supposed to do

to

use a double quote in a string in javascript. But my browser (IE 6.0)
doesn't like it - it says it is an "unterminated string constant".

If I change the double quote to a single quote - \' - then the browser

works

as expected: it shows 19' in the status bar. But the monitor I am
describing is really only 19 inches, not 19 feet, so that's not a real
option.

So am I using the escape character wrong, or have I just run into a bug in IE6?

You are using the escape character wrong. This is not a bug. You need to
use &quot; instead. As in:

...
MONITOR, 19&quot; CODAR EAGLE';return true;"

See this portion of the HTML spec for more info on this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/...html#h-B.3.2.1

Regards,
Peter Foti

Thanks! That works without the hack. I knew it couldn't have been a bug in
IE ;-)