Passing double quotes to Jscript - html

Question

insertText is java script that accepts two string paramters
I need to pass two strings
first parameter:
<img src="
second
">
I just cant figure out how to pass double quote as parameter
This works
<a onClick="insertText('<em>', '</em>'); return false;">Italic</a>
This does not
<a onClick="insertText('<img src=/"', '/">'); return false;">Image</a>
Prints '); return false;">Image

Answer 1

You want to use \ rather than /

Answer 2

The escape character for JavaScript is \, not /. So try this:
<a onClick="insertText('<img src=\"', '\">'); return false;">Image</a>
Update:
The solution above doesn't work, because the double-quotes "belong" to the HTML and not to the JavaScript, so we can't escape them in the JavaScript code.
Use this instead:
<a onClick="insertText('<img src=\'', '\'>'); return false;">Image</a> // --> <img src='...'>
or
<a onClick='insertText("<img src=\"", "\">"); return false;'>Image</a> // --> <img src="...">
Since you are using jQuery, why don't you do it the jQuery way?
insertText = function(a, b) {
// your insertText implementation...
};
$('a').click(function() { // use the right selector, $('a') selects all anchor tags
insertText('<img src="', '">');
});
With this solution you can avoid the problems with the quotes.
Here's a working example: http://jsfiddle.net/jcDMN/

Answer 3

The Golden Rule for that is reversing the quotation which means I use the single quotation ' inside the double quotation " and vice versa.
Also, you should use the backslash symbole to espape a special character like ' and ".
For example,
the following commands should work as they apply the rules mentioned above...
<a onClick="insertText('<em>', '</em>'); return false;">Italic</a>
or
<a onClick='insertText("<em>", "</em>"); return false;'>Italic</a>
or
<a onClick="insertText('<img src=\"', '\">'); return false;">Image</a>
or
<a onClick='insertText("<img src=\'", "\'>"); return false;'>Image</a>
I hope this helps you ...

Answer 4

You need to escape it.
<a onClick="insertText('<img src=\"', '\">'); return false;">Image</a>