Question

I’m creating the following div using javascript, task_id is an int and person_name is a string, why is my alert not working!
when i send 2 integers, the alert works fine, when i send 2 strings the alert still doesn’t work, what am i doing wrong?

'<div " onMouseOver="Drag(' + task_id + ',' + person_name +');"</div>'
.....


function Drag(id, name){
    alert(id + "   " + name);
}

thanks a million in advance

Answer 1

You need to correctly add escaped string delimiters around the string, otherwise you’re sending a variable with the name of person_name‘s value. Try:

'<div onMouseOver="Drag(' + task_id + ',\'' + person_name +'\');"></div>'