How can I "escape" quotes in javascript?

Question

I don't know if "escaping" is the right word (please tell me what the right word/phrase is) but in Ruby you can say something like

text = "This is visit number #{numVisits} to this website"

so you can skip concatenation etc.

I'm working in JQuery and have a bit like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("a.ajax").click(function(event){
    $("#content").load("data.html this.getClass");
    });
});

The behavior I want is "click on (a class="ajax" id="schedule")(/a) and the "content" div on the current page is replaced by the "schedule" div from data.html. If I manually write in

load("data.html #test");

that works, but I want the script to load the DIV with the ID value of the anchor clicked. Any help would be swell!

Example Page: http://www.mariahandalex.info/stack/

Answer 1

Try this:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("a.ajax").each(function(){
        var obj = $(this);
        obj.click(function(event){
           alert(obj.attr('id'));
        });
    });
});

Answer 2

Javascript doesn't parse string literals looking for replacement markers like Ruby or PHP does. You will have to use concatenation.

Answer 3

You cannot embed javascript code inside a string, but you can concatenate a string to an object using '+' like so

$('#content').load('data.html #' + $(this).getClass());

About embedding code in a string, I don't think it has a name. Groovy calls those strings "Gstring"s, and ruby calls those 'Expression substitution in strings'. I'm not sure it has a standard name.