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royu
royu

Reputation: 377

Howto get 'real' single quotes

I have an asp.net web page.

Is there a possibility to just get 'real' single quotes client side?

Server side: 

this.Attributes["onclick"] = "$('#button').click();";

Client side: 

onclick="$('#button').click();"

gives an error.

Alert works just fine, i.e. Client side: 

onclick="alert('hello#amp;39;);".

Seems like I need 'real' single quotes to work with jQuery.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 807

Answers (1)

Marc Gagne
Marc Gagne

Reputation: 819

Is this standard ASP.NET, or ASP.NET MVC? It appears that the output is being escaped, but without sample code or more details I cannot be certain.

Your code example of 

this.Attributes["onclick"] = "$('#button').click();";

How is that rendered from the server? From a control?

Updated

This attribute value encoding was introduced in .NET 4.0. If you must you can set the controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion in your web.config to "3.5" see pages Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema) & PagesSection.ControlRenderingCompatibilityVersion Property.

Could you (instead of placing the onclick logic directly in the attribute value) record the function elsewhere and set the function name as the onclick value? Or register the click handler client side using jQuery?

Upvotes: 1

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