quotation mark or apostrophe

Hi,
which of the following two codes is correct and where is the correct
notation standardized:

a) alert("Hello World");

b) alert('Hello World');

Thanx
Stefan

Capricorn.St (AT) gmx (DOT) de wrote:

Hi,
which of the following two codes is correct and where is the correct
notation standardized:

a) alert("Hello World");

b) alert('Hello World');

Either.

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Capricorn.St (AT) gmx (DOT) de said the following on 5/3/2006 5:47 AM:

Hi,
which of the following two codes is correct and where is the correct
notation standardized:

Both are "correct" technically.

As for being standardized, it isn't. Typically though use ' in JS and
leave " for HTML. It makes escaping a lot simpler.

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Capricorn.St (AT) gmx (DOT) de writes:

which of the following two codes is correct and where is the correct
notation standardized:

a) alert("Hello World");

b) alert('Hello World');

Both are correct. String literals in ECMAScript/Javascript can be
surrounded by either single or double quotes, as long as they
match.

This is specified in the ECMAScript standard:
<URL:http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm>
and also in the specifications of the ECMAScript compliant languages
javascript: <URL:http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide:Literals#String_Literals >
and JScript: <URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/c7a6bd3a-4b1c-4dbe-8505-106dbf483b41.asp>

/L
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