Question

i am using a 3rd party library to show tooltips, like so:

string tooltip = "test";
output.Write("onmouseover='Tip(\"" + test + "\");'");  // work fine :)

i’m having problem with situations like the following where i need quotes for formatting:

string tooltip = "<span style='color:red;'>test</span>";
output.Write("onmouseover='Tip(\"" + test + "\");'");  // no working :(

how can i escape the quotes needed for the html in the tooltip so it doesn’t break the function call?

Answer 1

Replace any instance of " with " as follows:

test.Replace( "\"", """ )