Syntax error, missing right parenthesis.. help

[Phil Powell]

<input type="submit" name="delete_student" value="Delete Applicant"
onClick="setSubmitVal(this); return
willDeleteApplicant('O'Connor, Kerry B');">

This HTML tag causes Javascript errors in IE 7+ and in Mozilla; seems
to be OK in Firefox 1.0 for Linux.

This is a time-sensitive issue that I can't seem to resolve, could
someone come up with a quickie for me in this case? It seems the
student's name is breaking things in Javascript because their name is
"O'Connor".

Thanx
Phil

[Randy Webb]

Phil Powell said the following on 6/14/2006 4:55 PM:

<input type="submit" name="delete_student" value="Delete Applicant"
onClick="setSubmitVal(this); return
willDeleteApplicant('O'Connor, Kerry B');">
This HTML tag causes Javascript errors in IE 7+ and in Mozilla; seems
to be OK in Firefox 1.0 for Linux.

This is a time-sensitive issue that I can't seem to resolve, could
someone come up with a quickie for me in this case? It seems the
student's name is breaking things in Javascript because their name is
"O'Connor".

Escape it then:

"O\'Connor"

But, there is nothing in that code that should cause a syntax error. The
error is in code elsewhere.

And, don't use the onclick of the submit button to do that, use the
onsubmit event handler of the form.

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