When injecting text inside a div, I need to insert a url safely in javascript using jquery

Question

Hi,

Using jquery I am doing something like:

$("#someId").append("this is some text, go here.");

How can I insert a url like this safely? Is there an easier way to escape all those characters that will cause js to break?

Answer 1

I think escape should do it:

$("#someId").append(escape('this is some text, go here'));

Answer 2

Try using the html function, jquery docs

I'm no expert but something like this should work

$("#someId").html("<span>this is some text, go <a href='http://google.com'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;");

Answer 3

Unless I'm mistaken by what you are asking, you could do something like

link = $('<a>here</a>');
link.attr('href', 'http://www.google.com');
$("#someId").append("this is some text, go " + link);