How do I properly escape quotes inside HTML attributes?

Question

I have a drop down on a web page which is breaking when the value string contains a quote.

The value is \"asd, but in the DOM it always appears as an em

Answer 1

If you are using Javascript and Lodash, then you can use _.escape(), which escapes ", ', <, >, and &.

See here: https://lodash.com/docs/#escape