javascript override ' in document.write

Question

I have a silly question but important for me. How to override ' in document.write in javascript? For example:

      document.write('Sent's Lois');

You see the problem is part Sent's -'s- because javasript considere it as the end Lois'... It is a problem for me I was trying:

       document.write('Lois');
       document.write('s Lois');

But that's not it because you get document.write('Sent s Lois'); and you missing Sent's again..... Any help please......

"Beside regular, printable characters, special characters can be encoded using escape notation." From [MDN String](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String) — Givi, Jan 27 '14 at 13:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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use \'

document.write('Sent\'s Lois');

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

Community

answered Jan 27 '14 at 13:02

yashhy

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '14 at 13:02

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You can try

 document.write("Sent's Lois");

answered Jan 27 '14 at 13:02

Rajesh Dhiman

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you also can try `document.write('Sent\'s Lois');` – Hugo S. Mendes Jan 27 '14 at 13:06
Yes we can but this gets quite messy when we have to escape multiple quotes in a single string. – Rajesh Dhiman Jan 27 '14 at 13:09
there are cases and cases. – Hugo S. Mendes Jan 27 '14 at 13:23
And we have alternates and alternates :) – Rajesh Dhiman Jan 27 '14 at 13:26
yep. I never said otherwise. Well..What was marked as answer? o/ – Hugo S. Mendes Jan 27 '14 at 13:36
Well that answer fits user's needs so got marked as answer, but may be time or later he have to come to the alternate ;) – Rajesh Dhiman Jan 27 '14 at 13:47

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 27 '14 at 13:01

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The term you're looking for is escaping quotes. Use the back-slash to do so:

document.write('Sent\'s Lois');

answered Jan 27 '14 at 13:01

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