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Chris Fodor
Chris Fodor

Reputation: 117

Syntax help - HTML in javascript

I am trying to add an <a> </a> inside of my datatable where I already had o use the ""´s right after return, but how do I pass my sub into my alert call?

function (data, type, full, meta) {
                    var sub = full[7].substring(0,21)+"...";
                   return "<a class='astyle'  onclick='new function() { alert('"+sub+"') }'>"+sub+"</a>";

                                }

My example is not working.

Upvotes: -1

Views: 32

Answers (1)

Praveen Kumar Purushothaman
Praveen Kumar Purushothaman

Reputation: 167162

You have to escape the ' here:

onclick='new function() { alert(\'"+sub+"\') }'>

Full Code

function (data, type, full, meta) {
  var sub = full[7].substring(0, 21) + "...";
  return "<a class='astyle' onclick='new function() { alert(\'"+sub+"\') }'>"+sub+"</a>";
}

Best way to handle these would be split all the variables and get it done. Don't have one single variable with all the confusing quotes and codes.

Upvotes: 2

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