Unterminated string literal in Javascript

Hi,
I have this function call in a jsp:
<a
href='javascript&colon;setProp("O'hare");'>O'Hare</a>
When I click on that link nothing happens. And the javascript console in Netscape shows the following error:

unterminated string literal.

I tried escaping using \. But it doesnt work.

Any help is appreciated
Thanks
-H

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herald10

Never mind. I had to replace the single quote with "

Migrateduser

You could also put multiple escape characters there and it would work just as well.

Dave

Current Environment(s):
(1) TS 6.5 on W2K3
(2) TS 6.1 SP1 on W2K3
By the way, I miss Unix terribly.

herald10

It throws the same error when I try to do that by putting around 2-4 escaping characters.

Thanks
-H

Migrateduser

Sorry, that was hard for me to see, but I copied your text into another editor and I can see it better now (I'm complaining about my sight at the ripe old age of 28!)

If you were to switch around your double and single quotes, that is:


href="javascript&colon;setProp('O\'hare');"

That should work. Your syntax should also work, but I don't usually use single quotes as the outer-most delimiter. You might need to escape O'Hare twice, but that's trivial.

Dave

Current Environment(s):
(1) TS 6.5 on W2K3
(2) TS 6.1 SP1 on W2K3
By the way, I miss Unix terribly.

herald10

Thanks for your responses Dave!
We used ' initially, but IE didn't recognize it as the entity for a single quote, but on Firefox it was ok. So we ended up using ' instead. Just now checked your suggestion. It works too.

Thanks
-H