Why do I need to escape the '/' character in JavaScript? [duplicate]

Answer 1

You're actually running into an html-escaping issue: the browser interprets in your string as the close-tag for the script element in which your javascript is embedded -- so to the browser, your line looks like it's missing the close single-quote:

var snaphtml = ' to anything else, like <\/script> or \074/script>, etc.


The only characters you normally need to worry about in a javascript string are double-quote (if you're quoting the string with a double-quote), single-quote (if you're quoting the string with a single-quote), backslash, carriage-return (\r), or linefeed (\n).