Handling Special Characters in JSP

When you output a string to javascript that contains quotes, you may end up with illegal syntax, something like this:

alert("hello, my name is "gimbal2"");

What you need to do is escape the quotes that you output, so it becomes this:

alert("hello, my name is \"gimbal2\"");

You could do that with the String replace() method.

gimbal2a at 2007-7-9 0:08:19 >