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ESCAPE_ATTRIBUTE - Neowebscript
Synopsis * Description

Escapes reserved SGML characters.

Synopsis

escape_attribute ?-option? string

Description

Replaces special characters in string that are usually reserved in HTML document character set. The following special characters are replaced with the following named character entities:

Character: Replacement:

& &

< <

> >

" "

' '

The -option specifies the character used for padding string (the default is -noquotes).

Option: Character:

-doublequotes "

-singlequotes '

-noquotes

The command is targetted to INPUT variables within FORM documents, and may be used in general to safely escape special characters in any attribute within an HTML element. However, anchor links or any attribute containing a relative or absolute URI should be escaped using quote_string.