Question

This may be obvious to someone. I am trying to place a textbox on the screen under a specific circumstance and I am using the following code:

document.getElementById('tbDetails').innerHTML = '<textarea name="taComments" style="height:40px;width:333px" class="f1 greytext" onblur="sb_textarea_onblur(this, \'Check Out Rhapsody Tours\'s Video:\')" onfocus="sb_textarea_onfocus(this, \'Check Out Rhapsody Tours\'s Video:\')">Check Out Rhapsody Tours's Video:</textarea>';

as you can see the text has a apostrophe “Check Out Rhapsody Tours’s Video:” which is causing an error. The text is created dynamically in classic asp so there is no way to tell which information will be displayed.

Other code that may help:

function sb_textarea_onfocus(txt,defaultText)
{
     if(txt&&txt.value == defaultText)
     {
         txt.value = '';
         txt.className = 'f1';
     }
}

function sb_textarea_onblur(txt,defaultText)
{
     if(txt&&txt.value == '')
     {
          txt.value = defaultText;
          txt.className = 'f1 greytext';
     }
}

I just need a way to correct the javascript to allow apostrophes… Any idea..

Many thanks in advance,
Paul

Answer 1

1. You missed one apostrophe in

   Check Out Rhapsody Tours’s Video:

2. Inside a string you want to escape-escape -> \\\' three backslashes and then apostrophe.