quote problem - Javascript

Don Crossman

Can someone tell me how to get this line to work?

document.write (" <input type='button' value='Make this your home
page' onclick='this.s tyle.behavior=" url(#default#ho mepage)";
this.setHomePag e("http://www.somewhere.c om");' />");

Seems no matter what I try, it either throws an error (expected ')'), or
just does nothing. It would seem that escaping is not the answer in this
case (it didn't work).

I only want this button to show if the browser is IE 5+ for obvious
reasons.

The entire script:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (navigator.appN ame == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" &&
navigator.appVe rsion >= "5.0") {
document.write ("<form>");
document.write (" <div align='center'> ");
document.write (" <input type='button' value='Make this your home
page' onclick='this.s tyle.behavior=" url(#default#ho mepage)";
this.setHomePag e("http://www.somewhere.c om");' />");
document.write (" </div>");
document.write ("</form>");
}
</script>

Thanks.

-- Don

Jul 20 '05 #1

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kaeli

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dc*******@nospa m.email.com enlightened us with...

Can someone tell me how to get this line to work?

Browser detection sucks.
Use conditional IE comments to target IE only.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.as p

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title> New Document </title>

</head>

<body>
test

</body>
</html>

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Jul 20 '05 #2

Cycloneous Echevarria

Don:

document.write ("<input type='button' value='Make this your home page'
onclick='this.s tyle.behavior=\ "url(#default#h omepage)\";
this.setHomePag e(\"http://www.somewhere.c om\");'/>");

You have to escape the quotes.

Orlando, aka, Cycloneous
Don Crossman wrote:

Can someone tell me how to get this line to work?

document.write (" <input type='button' value='Make this your home
page' onclick='this.s tyle.behavior=" url(#default#ho mepage)";
this.setHomePag e("http://www.somewhere.c om");' />");

Seems no matter what I try, it either throws an error (expected ')'), or
just does nothing. It would seem that escaping is not the answer in this
case (it didn't work).

I only want this button to show if the browser is IE 5+ for obvious
reasons.

The entire script:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (navigator.appN ame == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" &&
navigator.appVe rsion >= "5.0") {
document.write ("<form>");
document.write (" <div align='center'> ");
document.write (" <input type='button' value='Make this your home
page' onclick='this.s tyle.behavior=" url(#default#ho mepage)";
this.setHomePag e("http://www.somewhere.c om");' />");
document.write (" </div>");
document.write ("</form>");
}
</script>

Thanks.

-- Don

Jul 20 '05 #3

Don Crossman

You're right. Actually, the problem is something screwy in the if
statement. The script bails in IE 6.

Cycloneous Echevarria <or*****@engr.u conn.edu> wrote in
news:Ul******** ***********@new ssvr16.news.pro digy.com:

Don:

document.write ("<input type='button' value='Make this your home page'
onclick='this.s tyle.behavior=\ "url(#default#h omepage)\";
this.setHomePag e(\"http://www.somewhere.c om\");'/>");

You have to escape the quotes.

Orlando, aka, Cycloneous
Don Crossman wrote:
Can someone tell me how to get this line to work?

document.write (" <input type='button' value='Make this your home
page' onclick='this.s tyle.behavior=" url(#default#ho mepage)";
this.setHomePag e("http://www.somewhere.c om");' />");

Seems no matter what I try, it either throws an error (expected ')'),
or just does nothing. It would seem that escaping is not the answer
in this case (it didn't work).

I only want this button to show if the browser is IE 5+ for obvious
reasons.

The entire script:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (navigator.appN ame == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" &&
navigator.appVe rsion >= "5.0") {
document.write ("<form>");
document.write (" <div align='center'> ");
document.write (" <input type='button' value='Make this your
home
page' onclick='this.s tyle.behavior=" url(#default#ho mepage)";
this.setHomePag e("http://www.somewhere.c om");' />");
document.write (" </div>");
document.write ("</form>");
}
</script>

Thanks.

-- Don

Jul 20 '05 #4

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen

ExGuardianReade r <no***@noway.co m> writes:

(What are you answering?)

You can always use &#x22 to put a double quote character inside a
string, and &#x27 to put an apostrophe in.

"Always" is too much. The string "&#x22" is an HTML entity. If your
Javascript is not embedded in a HTML file, e.g., an external Javascript
file, then it will not work.

What will work is "\x22" inside a Javascript string literal. That is the
Javascript escape, not the HTML one.

/L
--
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lr*@hotpop.com
DHTML Death Colors: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleD OM.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

Jul 20 '05 #5

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