Escape character will not XHTML validate!

[JamesManke]

When using the code below internally on my page (which I must do because I am using ColdFusion variables), the page will not XHTML validate because of the escape "\". Is there a way around this?

Example:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
document.write("&nbsp;<a class=\"preview\" onmouseup=\"changeColor('#show_all.name#')\" onclick=\"document.main.src=details_#image_counter#.src\" href=\"javascript:;\" onfocus=\"blur()\">#show_all.name#</a>&nbsp;");
</script>

When validating I get the error,

Error: an attribute value must be quoted if it contains any character other than letters (A-Za-z), digits, hyphens, and periods; use quotes if in doubt

Thanks for your help,
James

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Yes. Change all occurrences of this:

\"

to this:

\"

Just because you are document.writing the HTML instead of putting it directly on the page doesn't mean you should avoid escaping your code.

Hope this helps,
Dan


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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Sorry - ignore that - I totally misunderstood the problem!

Dan

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You'd need to escape the values of the server-side content that is being delivered to the page. The line as you have it right there validates as strict XHTML 1.1

Hope this helps,
Dan


[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]