How do I escape a string inside JavaScript code inside an onClick handler?

Question

Maybe I\'m just thinking about this too hard, but I\'m having a problem figuring out what escaping to use on a string in some JavaScript code inside a link\'s onClick handle

Answer 1

I have faced this problem as well. I made a script to convert single quotes into escaped double quotes that won't break the HTML.

function noQuote(text)
{
    var newtext = "";
    for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
        if (text[i] == "'") {
            newtext += "\"";
        }
        else {
            newtext += text[i];
        }
    }
    return newtext;
}