Escape Quotes In HTML5 Data Attribute Using Javascript

Question

I\'m using jQuery\'s .data() to work with custom HTML5 data attributes where the value of the attribute needs to be able to contain both single quotes and doubl

Answer 1

Use encodeURI to escape quotation marks in your JSON object. Parse the string with decodeURI.

var popup = document.getElementById('popup'),
    msgObj = JSON.parse(decodeURI(popup.dataset.message));

console.log(msgObj);