Double quotes inside string HTML

Question

I want to store this:

<span class="icon phone">m</span>

in a string. How do I do this?

Tried: @"m";

Tried: @"m";

Please help!

Also, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1928909/in-c-can-i-escape-a-double-quote-in-a-literal-string ;) — zimdanen, Apr 25 '13 at 19:16
Save it in a text file. Then from code, read the first line of that file (remember to trim the line ending!). — Colonel Panic, Apr 25 '13 at 19:47

Mike Corcoran · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-16T16:10:43.637

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use single quotes, instead.

var html = "<span class='icon phone'>m</span>";

or double the quotes in a literal string

var html = @"<span class=""icon phone"">m</span>";

or escape the quote characters with the backslash character

var html = "<span class=\"icon phone\">m</span>";

edited Dec 16 '14 at 16:10

answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:14

Mike Corcoran

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Single quotes are valid in HTML4 (and 5? not sure), but not in XHTML... btw, you have an extra single quote at the end of your second code snippet – Thomas Levesque Apr 25 '13 at 19:16
single quotes are valid in XHTML. fixed the typo, thx – Mike Corcoran Apr 25 '13 at 19:18
My mistake; I was pretty sure they were forbidden in XML (thus in XHTML too), but apparently I was wrong about that... – Thomas Levesque Apr 25 '13 at 19:23

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:49

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How about

new XElement("span", new XAttribute("class", "icon phone"), "m").ToString()

answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:49

Colonel Panic

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:16

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You can also omit the @ and escape the double quote with a backslash \:

"<span class=\"icon phone\">m</span>"

answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:16

MPelletier

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:14

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You can do so by typing " twice. It will appear once, inside a @-string.

So, in your case, to store:

<span class="icon phone">m</span>

Your string would be:

string s = @"<span class=""icon phone"">m</span>";

answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:14

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jAC · Answer 5 · 2013-04-25T19:20:47.867

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To save a quotes in a string, you have to mask it:

You can mask either by string mystring = @"m"; or by masking the quotes directly with a backslash (\) string mystring = "m";.

edited Apr 25 '13 at 19:20

answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:15

jAC

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:16

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Simply

String html = "<span class=\"icon phone\">m</span>"

Or you can use a String literal:

String html = @"<span class=""icon phone"">m</span>"

that's it.

answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:16

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:16

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try this:

  string str="<span class=\"icon phone\">m</span>";

answered Apr 25 '13 at 19:16

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Double quotes inside string HTML

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