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shimmoril
shimmoril

Reputation: 682

Javascript Multi-level Nested Quotes

I'm doing some work w/ the JQWidgets grid which requires replacing the value in a column w/ an image. To do this, I need to return a string to the cellsrenderer. In addition, clicking on the icon will perform a Javascript function call, passing several parameters. One of the parameters is a string value, and I'm having difficulty setting up my return string.

The Javascript function I'm calling takes 4 variables - three integers and a string. This is the code for the return: 

return "<span style='margin:4px; display:block;'><a href='javascript:;' onclick='unenroll(" + courseID + ", \"courseName\", " + progress + ", " + userID + ")' class='delete-icon' title='<cfoutput>#APPLICATION.LC.getValue("UnassignFrom")#</cfoutput> ' + courseName + '?'><cfoutput>#APPLICATION.LC.getValue("UnassignFrom")#</cfoutput> ' + courseName + '?</a></span>";

courseID, courseName, progress and userID are all Javascript variables; courseName is a string.

As you can see, I've tried escaping the quotes around the courseName w/ slashes, which doesn't work. Neither does encoding Unicode or HTML-entity versions of quotes. I've even tried switching around all the quotes (ie. from single to double and double to single), but still nothing.

Edit - this is what I'm getting back from Firebug: syntax error unenroll(2333, "Exam Automation", 50, )

Upvotes: 1

Views: 954

Answers (1)

haynar
haynar

Reputation: 6030

you just missed some of escaping quotes near "UnassignFrom", here is the correct version:

return "<span style='margin:4px; display:block;'><a href='javascript:;' onclick='unenroll(" + courseID + ", \"courseName\", " + progress + ", " + userID + ")' class='delete-icon' title='<cfoutput>#APPLICATION.LC.getValue(\"UnassignFrom\")#</cfoutput> ' + courseName + '?'><cfoutput>#APPLICATION.LC.getValue(\"UnassignFrom\")#</cfoutput> ' + courseName + '?</a></span>"

Upvotes: 1

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