How can I escape a single quote

Question

How can I escape a    single quote  in HTML  This is where I m trying to use it   lt input type  text  id  abc  value  hel lo  gt   The result for the above code is  quot hel quot  populated in the text box  I tried to replace   with     but this what I m getting   lt input type  text  id  abc  value  hel  lo  gt   The result for the above code is  quot hel quot  populated in the text box  How can I successfully escape the single quotes

User · Answer

use javascript inbuild functions escape and unescape

for example

var escapedData = escape("hel'lo");   
output = "%27hel%27lo%27" which can be used in the attribute.

again to read the value from the attr

var unescapedData = unescape("%27hel%27lo%27")
output = "'hel'lo'"

This will be helpful if you have huge json stringify data to be used in the attribute

User · Answer

You can use  amp apos   which is iffy in IE  or  amp  39   which should work everywhere   For a comprehensive list  see the W3C HTML5 Named Character References or the HTML entities table on WebPlatform org

User · Answer

You could use HTML entities     amp  39  for    amp  34  for         For more  you can take a look at Character entity references in HTML

User · Answer

As you   re in the context of HTML  you need to use HTML to represent that character  And for HTML you need to use a numeric character reference  amp  39    amp  x27  hexadecimal     lt input type  text  id  abc  value  hel amp  39 lo  gt

User · Answer

Probably the easiest way    lt input type  text  id  abc  value  hel lo  gt

User · Answer

Represent it as a text entity  ASCII 39     lt input type  text  id  abc  value  hel amp  39 lo  gt

User · Answer

If for some reason you cannot escape the apostrophe character and you can t change it into a HTML entity  as it was in my case for a specific Vue js property  you can use replace to change it into different apostrophe character from the UTF8 characters set  for instance    - U 02BC     - U 2019

User · Answer

You could try using   amp  145

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