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List:       perl-win32-users
Subject:    Re: HTML question
From:       Carl Jolley <cjolley () iac ! net>
Date:       2000-10-31 18:55:05
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, John Deighan wrote:

> This is an HTML question. I would like to include a double quote character
> in an attribute, and nothing I've tried works (doubling the quote mark,
> preceding it with a backslash, using %25). Specifically, I want to allow
> users to enter strings in an edit field in a form, then later allow them to
> see the string in an edit field, allowing them to edit the string, without
> disallowing quote characters. When I display the field with the previously
> entered string already there, I use something like:
> 
> <input type=text value="$string">
> 
> but if $string contains a quote character (i.e. ") the displayed string is
> truncated at that point because, after interpolation, you get something like:
> 
> <input type=text value="this contains a "quote" character">
> 
> Is there any way to include a quote mark in the value of an attribute?
>

Sure, just refer to the quote as required: &quot;

**** cjolley@iac.net <Carl Jolley>
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