Escape quotes in JavaScript

Question

I\'m outputting values from a database (it isn\'t really open to public entry, but it is open to entry by a user at the company -- meaning, I\'m not worried about XSS).

Answer 1

You can copy those two functions (listed below), and use them to escape/unescape all quotes and special characters. You don't have to use jQuery or any other library for this.

function escape(s) {
    return ('' + s)
        .replace(/\\/g, '\\\\')
        .replace(/\t/g, '\\t')
        .replace(/\n/g, '\\n')
        .replace(/\u00A0/g, '\\u00A0')
        .replace(/&/g, '\\x26')
        .replace(/'/g, '\\x27')
        .replace(/"/g, '\\x22')
        .replace(//g, '\\x3E');
}

function unescape(s) {
    s = ('' + s)
       .replace(/\\x3E/g, '>')
       .replace(/\\x3C/g, '<')
       .replace(/\\x22/g, '"')
       .replace(/\\x27/g, "'")
       .replace(/\\x26/g, '&')
       .replace(/\\u00A0/g, '\u00A0')
       .replace(/\\n/g, '\n')
       .replace(/\\t/g, '\t');

    return s.replace(/\\\\/g, '\\');
}