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Re: Transposing single and double quotes.

From "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Transposing single and double quotes.
Date 2012-03-01 18:07 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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2012-03-01 17:21, Evertjan. wrote:

>> <a onclick=
>> "window.alert('Please don\'t click the&quot;Click&quot; button again')"
>>> foo</a>
>
> mmm, yes, that is different from:
>
> <script type='text/javascript'>
> window.alert('Please don\'t click the&quot;Click&quot; button again');
> </script>
>
> But why?

Because by HTML rules up to and including HTML 4.01, and in actual 
browser behavior for HTML (as opposite to XHTML), the content model of 
<script> elements is CDATA. This means that normal HTML processing is 
suppressed: the content is taken as data, not interpreted as markup, 
except for the end tag </script>, which is recognized.

This means that the literal string &quot; is passed to the JavaScript 
interpreter.

Within an attribute value, entity references are recognized, and instead 
of the &quot; reference, the ASCII quotation mark (") is passed.

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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Transposing single and double quotes. Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-02-29 15:04 +0000
  Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-02-29 17:27 +0200
    Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-02-29 18:17 +0000
  Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-29 07:28 -0800
  Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Jake Jarvis <pig_in_shoes@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-29 16:39 +0100
  Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-02-29 18:27 +0000
    Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-02-29 18:38 +0000
    Re: Transposing single and double quotes. KR <kristian.rasmussen@broadpark.no.spam.com> - 2012-02-29 19:45 +0100
      Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-29 19:59 +0100
        Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-02-29 22:28 +0000
          Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-03-01 07:52 +0200
            Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-01 07:54 +0000
              Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-03-01 10:18 +0200
                Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-01 15:21 +0000
                Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-03-01 18:07 +0200
              Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-01 10:30 +0100
                Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-01 15:29 +0000
                Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-01 22:10 +0100
                Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-02 11:02 +0100
                Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-02 13:17 +0100
                Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-05 10:09 +0100
                Re: Transposing single and double quotes. John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-02 16:27 +0000
              Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Dr J R Stockton <reply1209@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-02 22:05 +0000
                Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-03 08:35 +0000
    Re: Transposing single and double quotes. "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-02-29 20:47 +0200
      Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-03-01 07:19 +0000
    Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-29 14:18 -0800
  Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Dr J R Stockton <reply1209@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-01 21:55 +0000

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