The text value holds string text with double quotes and apostrophes as you see in the example. when I print the result it changes to different characters.
The text that is coming from API is :
"mismatched input ‘STARTt’ expecting ‘START’ ";
but when I print it, it goes :
"mismatched" input="" ‘startt’="" expecting="" ‘start’=""
I would like to print the string exactly how is stored
var marker = document.createElement("div");
var text = "mismatched input 'STARTt' expecting 'START' ";
marker.innerHTML = "<div data-tooltip=" + text+ ">⚠️</div>";
console.log(marker.innerHTML);
>Solution :
Attribute values containing spaces have to be delimited with "
or '
.
Attribute values containing '
have to be delimited with "
Attribute values containing "
have to be delimited with '
.
Attribute values containing "
and '
have to be delimited with one of those while the other has to be replaced with the appropriate entity ("
or '
).
Trying to generate HTML by mashing strings together is asking for trouble when you hit any kind of escaping requirements.
Don’t do it. Use DOM methods instead.
const marker = document.createElement("div");
const text = "mismatched input 'STARTt' expecting 'START' ";
const child = document.createElement('div');
child.setAttribute('data-tooltip', text);
child.innerText = "⚠️";
marker.appendChild(child);
console.log(marker.innerHTML);