HTML/CSS/PHP - multiple quotation marks [duplicate]

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We all know that a quotation mark must have it's partner. But how will I do it if I got 3 consecutive elements that wil use up a quotation mark (PHP echo, HTML and CSS class, Javascript function)? Something like this

echo '
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu('edit-user-window')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
';

The echo's quotation mark breaks at the start of my onclick function. How do I do it?

Use backward slash before the quotation mark...

qtgye
– qtgye

2014-07-31 01:03:55 +00:00
Commented Jul 31, 2014 at 1:03 — qtgye
– qtgye, Commented Jul 31, 2014 at 1:03

Darren · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-31 01:53:13Z

4

You can simply escape it:

echo ' <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')">.....';

Notes

The error you are receiving comes because you effectively "break" the string at those points. It is bad concatenation. And by using the \ before those commas ('), you're telling the php interpreter to ignore the character that follows that slash (\) which, in this case is the comma (').

edited Jul 31, 2014 at 1:53

answered Jul 31, 2014 at 1:09

Darren

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Dave Clarke Over a year ago

The first solution would not work as the OP is also using speech marks in the string.

Darren Over a year ago

@swiss196 Good spot, Didn't see that. Edited.

Thomas Edison · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-31 01:10:14Z

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Skip it using the slash

echo '
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
';

answered Jul 31, 2014 at 1:10

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Yago Arroyo · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-31 01:10:29Z

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You can use \ to escape a character, so your example would look like:

echo '
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
';

answered Jul 31, 2014 at 1:10

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jned29 · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-31 01:11:18Z

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Use backslash like this...

onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')"

Backslashes are used in PHP to escape special characters within quotes.

answered Jul 31, 2014 at 1:11

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Ke Vin · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-31 01:11:38Z

Use either a backward slash \ before ' -> \' (also works if you work with strings encapsulated in " -> \")

echo '
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu(\'edit-user-window\')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
';

or use heredoc syntax

echo <<<EOT
    <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu('edit-user-window')">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>
EOT;

Null · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-31 01:17:17Z

when you are using single quotes use only double qoutes in it or vice versa as

echo '
 <tr class="table-body" onclick="showMenu("edit-user-window")">
        <td> <input type="submit" class="delete-but graphic-buts" value="" /> </td>
        <td> <a href="/res/doc.docx" target="_blank"> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>

'

or

echo "
 <tr class='table-body' onclick='showMenu('edit-user-window')'>
        <td> <input type='submit' class='delete-but graphic-buts' value='' /> </td>
        <td> <a href='/res/doc.docx' target='_blank'> User </a> </td>
        <td> Pass </td>
        <td> user </td>
        <td> View-Only </td>
    </tr>

"

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