how do i format this url so it displays in javascript?

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I have this url that I have to pass as a javascript string. I know that I need to escape the characters, but no matter what I do I can't seem to get it right?

 var v = "<a href="www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847">www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847</a>";

Surround it `'` instead of `"` or escape the `"` inside the string with `\"`. See [MDN: String Literals](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Values,_variables,_and_literals#String_literals) — p.s.w.g, Jul 24 '14 at 21:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 30 '15 at 01:40

You are using double quotes inside a string declared with double quotes. You can:

Change the double quotes inside the string to single quotes

var v = "<a href='www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847'>www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847</a>";

Escape the double quotes inside the string with \

var v = "<a href=\"www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847\">www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847</a>";

Change the double quotes outside the string to single quotes

var v = '<a href="www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847">www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847</a>';

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '14 at 21:27

you can use single quotes ' to differentiate internal quotes, or you can escape your internal quotes \"

The code becomes:

var v = "<a href='www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847'>www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847</a>";

or

var v = "<a href=\"www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847\">www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847</a>";

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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maybe this

var url = "www.youbigboy.com/showthread.php?t=1847"; //or other dynamic url's
var sb = "<a href='" + url + "'>big boy url</a>";

source: is the + operator less performant than StringBuffer.append()

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Jul 24 '14 at 21:38

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how do i format this url so it displays in javascript?

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