How to escape double quotes in title attribute

Question

Hi,

I am trying to use a string that contains double quotes in the title attribute of an anchor. So far I tried these:

<a href=".." title="Some \"text\"">Some text</a>
<!-- title looks like `Some \` --!>

and

<a href=".." title="Some &quot;text&quot;">Some text</a>
<!-- title looks like `Some ` --!>

Please note that using single quotes is not an option.

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Does " instead of " work?

Answer 2

Give this a shot

HTML Escape character list.

It's a great reference for all of these characters.

Answer 3

This variant -

<a href=".." title="Some &quot;text&quot;">Some text</a>

Is correct and it works as expected - you see normal quotes in rendered page.

Answer 4

<a title="Some ""text""">

Answer 5

Using " is the way to do it, I tried you second code snippet and it works on both Firefox and IE.