Trouble using single quote in a download link with an input

Question

I'm trying to use a download link in an input type="button" that has an apostrophe, but it doesn't work the ways I've tryed and I can not use %27 in all links.

Eg:

<input value="Download" type="button" onclick='this.disabled=true;location.href="http://example/download/Don't.zip"; this.value="Starting.."'>

How can I make this works? Is that possible to also avoid this trouble if the download link has double quote (")? I need a solution that modifies the code itself instead of the link.

possible duplicate of [Escape quotes in JavaScript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2004168/escape-quotes-in-javascript) — Kurenai Kunai, May 18 '15 at 04:04

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '15 at 04:01

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You will need to encode the apostrophe for a URL, not HTML.

Take a look at this table: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

You'll see an apostrophe is %27 and a double quote is %22, so your URL would be:

http://example/download/Don%27t.zip

answered May 18 '15 at 04:01

Steve

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I'd like to modify the code instead of the link, so it could work with all links. Is that possible? – Henrique Barcelos May 18 '15 at 04:05
Most code libraries will have some kind of URL encoding library. What are you using to generate the link? – Steve May 18 '15 at 04:07
I use blogger, and the links comes from the CloudApp site. But I'd like to make things simpler, so the moderators could put the link directly without changing the link itself. – Henrique Barcelos May 18 '15 at 04:10
Does blogger not have some kind of link insert function like SO? – Steve May 18 '15 at 04:29
No, but if there is any alternative for this button I'll take it. – Henrique Barcelos May 18 '15 at 04:59
I don't know the blogger platform myself, getting this functionality is probably better asked on their support forum. – Steve May 18 '15 at 05:00

Trouble using single quote in a download link with an input

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