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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: How to deal with "messy" quotes?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:43:57 +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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