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romoha11
romoha11

Reputation: 37

expected expression, got '}'?

I am trying to pass the following content into a jquery variable but when I click on it it says expected expression, got }. It has to do with the quotation right? How am I supposed to use double and single quotes in this instance?

var content = $("<div class='channel' id='general' onclick='jumpToFirstLevelRoom('general')'>General</div>")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 958

Answers (5)

user7159290
user7159290

Reputation:

I got the problem in your code. The problem is in that statement where you are calling a function and passing arguments.

var content = $("<div class='channel' id='general' onclick='jumpToFirstLevelRoom('general')'>General</div>")

You are passing a string general in function jumpToFirstLevelRoom('general'). So when you are starting single quotes of string general, It is behaving as closing quote of onclick=' .

Try to not pass the string in the function as argument. Then the code will run. I hope it will help you. :)

Upvotes: 0

user8521080
user8521080

Reputation:

What you are looking for is this:

var content = $("<div class='channel' id='general' enter code hereonclick='jumpToFirstLevelRoom(\'general\')'>General</div>");

You need to use escape characters to remove double quotes.

Upvotes: 0

Shiladitya
Shiladitya

Reputation: 12181

Change your current code

var content = $("<div class='channel' id='general' onclick='jumpToFirstLevelRoom('general')'>General</div>")

to

var content = $("<div class='channel' id='general' onclick='jumpToFirstLevelRoom(\'general\')'>General</div>");

Just use escape characters.

With es6 you can do

var content = $(`<div class='channel' id='general' onclick='jumpToFirstLevelRoom("general")'>General</div>`);

Hope this will solve the problem.

Upvotes: 0

Maxime
Maxime

Reputation: 415

Yes your quotes are wrong. You have unescaped single quotes inside single quotes.

You should use either of these quotation techniques :

  • Different quotes :

    var content = $("<div class='channel' id='general' onclick='jumpToFirstLevelRoom(`general`)'>General</div>")

  • Escaped quotes :

    var content = $("<div class='channel' id='general' onclick='jumpToFirstLevelRoom(\'general\')'>General</div>")

Upvotes: 4

Kasun
Kasun

Reputation: 346

You can use the escape sequence to remove the double quot from the variable.

var content = $("<div class=\"channel\" id=\"general\" onclick=\"jumpToFirstLevelRoom('general')\">General</div>")

Upvotes: 0

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