如何在html字符串上自动添加引号

Question

is it possible to add quotation marks on a html string in order to be userd in visual studio? For example:

 class="btn btn-success btn-lg" href="

I want it to be

"class=""btn btn-success btn-lg"" href="""

so I can use it as string in visual studio. So my question is: Is it possible to create a little tool that, If I give ANY html It will give me back the html string already ready to be used in visual studio? Thanks a lot

Answer 1

If you really have to, you could write a function like this:

Public Function EscapeDoubleQuotations(s As String,
                                       Optional encloseInQuotes As Boolean = True) As String
    Dim escaped As String = s.Replace("""", """""")
    If encloseInQuotes Then escaped = """" & escaped & """"

    Return escaped
End Function

This will replace every double-quotation character in any text (not just HTML) with two double-quotations. This is particularly useful if you're trying to do this programmatically (eg, to automate some task).

However, in my opinion, it's not worth creating a tool simply to escape the double-quotations. You can easily do that in any text editor (eg, Notepad) using the "Find and Replace" utility. But if you think a tool would make things easier for you, then go ahead. You can use the function above to replace some text that is loaded from a file or manually added to a TextBox or something.

Answer 2

Not sure how you are adding the string to an HTML element but...

    Const bar As String = "class=" & ControlChars.Quote & "btn btn-success btn-lg" & ControlChars.Quote & " href=" & ControlChars.Quote & ControlChars.Quote
    '  produces   class="btn btn-success btn-lg" href=""