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

[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????
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[d d]

Maria Sudderman wrote:

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

[David Dorward]

On Jul 3, 5:12 pm, d d <[e-mail]:

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.

--
David Dorward

[Maria Sudderman]

thanks, this is the answer

"David Dorward" <do*****@gmail.comschrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Jul 3, 5:12 pm, d d <[e-mail]:

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.

--
David Dorward

[Richard Cornford]

d d wrote:

Maria Sudderman wrote:

>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>')">

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.