How do you escape characters in JavaScript/jQuery? [duplicate]

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How do you assign a string, in this case it's HTML code, to a JavaScript / jQuery variable?

And how do you escape double quotes and single quotes properly?

var html = ""; // <-- HTML goes here

Could you please clarify your question further, maybe include an full example of what exactly it is your trying to accomplish? As it stands I have no idea what your asking. — asawyer
– asawyer, Commented Dec 20, 2011 at 21:56

Rodolfo · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-20 22:00:11Z

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var html = "<head><title>Hello in \"quotes\"<\/title><\/head>"

answered Dec 20, 2011 at 22:00

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jball Over a year ago

Note that js strings can be delimited by single quotes or double quotes, and chars of the non-delimiting quote type do not need to be escaped. That is, both var html = '<head><title>Hello in "quotes"<\/title><\/head> and var html = "<head><title>Hello in 'quotes'<\/title><\/head>" are valid without escaping any characters in the string. See String Literals at MDN for more about it.

Rodolfo Over a year ago

of course, I just wanted to show an example of how escaping works in a string

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