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How to put quote within quotes in an HTML tag attribute?
How can I do something like:

<a href="this is a "test" for quotes">

In most prog-languages you'd escape by a preceding backslash.

BUT! I need to be able to use quotes outside and inside, I can not use singles inside doubles or vice versa.

Any thoughts are appreciated.
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I'm curious, why can't you use single-quotes?

The other solution is to use character entities:
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<span title="this is a &quot;test&quot; for quotes">
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I don't think Kravvitz's code came out quite right (the character entities were recognized as quotes ).

Use & quot ; (remove the spaces between the &, quot, and ; ) in lieu of " such that it won't be recognized as the end quote of the href. It will still display as a quote in links or in text, though.

Wikipedia has an article here .

It's the same method you can view < and > in a browser without them being recognized as HTML tags....



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Thank you both.

I noticed that <a href="file with %22quotes% inside.html"> also works for file:

file\ with\ \"quotes\"\ inside.html (a.k.a.: file with "quotes" inside.html)
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You're welcome

"%22" is a URL encoded character. As far as I know, it will only work where a URL is expected. (By the way, spaces in URLs must be URL encoded.)
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I don't think Kravvitz's code came out quite right (the character entities were recognized as quotes ).

Use & quot ; (remove the spaces between the &, quot, and ; ) in lieu of " such that it won't be recognized as the end quote of the href. It will still display as a quote in links or in text, though.

Thanks. I fixed it now.
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