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Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes?

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes?
Date 2016-12-12 20:43 +0100
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JJ wrote:

> For me, I always use double quotes (") for HTML and JavaScript codes since
> CSS requires double quote to be the quote character.

Then you are proceeding from a false assumption:

<https://www.w3.org/TR/css-syntax-3/#consume-a-token0>
 
> The only exception is when assigning HTML code into
> `innerHTML`/`outerHTML` properties where I'll use single quotes ('). If
> the HTML code happens to require single quotes too, I'll escape them.
> e.g.:
> 
>   ele.innerHTML = '<span class="notice">There\'s an input error</b>';

The resulting markup would not be valid: you have started a “span” element 
and ended a “b” element.

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How to deal with "messy" quotes? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-11 16:23 -0800
  Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-12-12 12:42 +0700
    Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 09:56 -0800
      Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-12-13 18:18 +0700
        Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-12-13 18:22 +0700
          Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-12-13 13:10 +0100
    Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-12-12 20:43 +0100
  Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? <cyber@example.com> - 2016-12-12 17:53 +0000
    Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 10:05 -0800
      Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? <cyber@example.com> - 2016-12-12 18:15 +0000
        Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 14:10 -0800
          Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 16:56 -0800
            Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? <cyber@example.com> - 2016-12-13 11:49 +0000
              Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-12-13 13:17 +0100
                Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? <cyber@example.com> - 2016-12-13 18:32 +0000
                Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-12-13 19:47 +0100
                Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? <cyber@example.com> - 2016-12-13 19:43 +0000
                Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-12-14 12:24 +0100
              Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 17:07 -0800
    Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-12-12 21:19 +0100
      Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 12:51 -0800
  Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-12-12 20:50 +0100

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