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Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Jeff North wrote:
>> You will need to rework this line to:
>> onclick="<A href='https://www.myfavoritesite.com'> </A>" >
>> or if you want double quotes throughout the line you will need:
>> onclick="<A href=\"https://www.myfavoritesite.com\"> </A>" >
> 
> Utter nonsense.  The value of the `onclick' attribute must be program
> code, without further specification, a syntactically correct ECMAScript
> /Program/. It MUST NOT contain an unescaped `<' character for that is a an
> STAGO (star tag open) delimiter.  ECMAScript escape sequences *cannot* be
             ^t
> used to escape markup delimiters as the markup parser will still see them. 

Clarification: ECMAScript escape sequences cannot be used to escape markup 
delimiters *if* the escape sequence *still* contains the markup delimiters.  
In this case, markup escape sequences –

  onclick="&lt;A href=&quot;https://www.myfavoritesite.com&quot;> &lt;/A>"

– or ECMAScript escape sequences – 

  onclick="\x3cA href=\x22https://www.myfavoritesite.com\x22> \x3c/A>"

– could be used to make this Valid *markup*, but the attribute value would 
still not be the required syntactically valid ECMAScript program, as

  <A href="https://www.myfavoritesite.com"> </A>

is _not_ one (`<' is an operator, the operand left-hand side is missing, to 
begin with).


PointedEars
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Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2012-05-28 18:01 -0400
  Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-05-29 00:25 +0200
  Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-05-29 12:13 +1000
    Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-05-29 13:51 +0200
      Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-05-29 14:06 +0200
  Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-28 21:32 -0700
    Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2012-05-29 13:55 -0400
      Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-29 11:26 -0700
        Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2012-06-23 14:03 -0400
  Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder Dr J R Stockton <reply1222@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-05-29 23:49 +0100
  Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-05-30 15:13 +0200
    Re: Newbie, want onclick to work, using Verizon sitebuilder micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2012-06-23 15:26 -0400

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