[Webdev] escaping quotes in html

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:47:23PM +0100, Stephen McCullough mentioned:
> >  <input type="text" name="box" value=""asdasd as" ASdasd " asdasd "' asd'">
> If you change the " to ' it should work. In other words instead of using
> " to close your value use value=''.
> <input type="text" name="box" value='"asdasd as"" ASdasd "" asdasd ""' asd'"'>

 That's demented. My head hurts. For a simpler example, if I had;

  <input type="text" name="box" value=" "my boy's" ">

 I should change that to;

  <input type="text" name="box" value=' "my boy"'"s" '>

 ?

Kate

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