Putting an html link inside java code

Question

I am new to java coding. I have an application thats can send mails, implemented in Java. I want to put a HTML link inside the mail, but when I put a html link, it shows an error saying ; is missing even though everything is correct.

String msgbody = "This is a reminder mail"; 
String link = "<a href="http://abcd.efg.com" target="_blank">http://abcd.efg.com</a>"; 
msgbody = msgbody + link;

Is there anything wrong if I use a string like this?

You cannot use nested quotes. Correct your code to the followng: `String link = "http://abcd.efg.com";`. Follow the tutorial [here](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/data/characters.html). Particularly, the section about escape sequences. — S.R.I, May 13 '12 at 05:04
String msgbody = "very good information"; String link = "http://abcd.efg.com"; — camie robot, Dec 21 '17 at 13:12

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

You need to escape quotes in string literals.

Instead of

String link = "<a href="http://abcd.efg.com" target="_blank">http://abcd.efg.com</a>";

try

String link = "<a href=\"http://abcd.efg.com\" target=\"_blank\">http://abcd.efg.com</a>";

For more info see "Characters"

Escape Sequences

A character preceded by a backslash (\) is an escape sequence and has special meaning to the compiler. The following table shows the Java escape sequences:

...

When an escape sequence is encountered in a print statement, the compiler interprets it accordingly. For example, if you want to put quotes within quotes you must use the escape sequence, \", on the interior quotes. To print the sentence

She said "Hello!" to me.

you would write
System.out.println("She said \"Hello!\" to me.");

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '12 at 05:03

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you can use escape method as answered above or you can make use of single quotes.as below :

String link = "<a href='http://abcd.efg.com' target='_blank'>http://abcd.efg.com</a>";

Single quotes just works fine with HTML.

answered May 13 '12 at 05:03

dku.rajkumar

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '21 at 09:06

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use multiLine Strings is included in JDK 15:

String msgbody = "This is a reminder mail";
String link = """
<a href="http://abcd.efg.com" target="_blank">http://abcd.efg.com</a>""";
msgbody = msgbody + link;

answered Mar 08 '21 at 09:06

SL5net

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Putting an html link inside java code

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Escape Sequences