How to escape quotes in inline styles?

Question

If I have an inline stylesheet, can and I want - for some strange reason - use the same quotes that u used to encapsulate the attribute value in my html code inside the css.

Is one of these correct?

<div style="background: url(\"http://my-url.com/img.jpg\")"></div>


<div style="background: url(&quot;http://my-url.com/img.jpg&quot;)"></div>

I think the first one is correct and the second one is nonsense. Am I right or not, and why?

edit:

A co worker wrote it the second way, and the problem was that some browsers (included but not necessarily limited to internet explorer 6+7+8) requested the url INCLUDING the " signs which resultet in an 404 request.

edit 2:

okay now its really getting weird. this is the original code copy and pasted from our file.

<div class="cover" style="background-image: url(&quot;http://www.flimmit.com/media/search/filmcovers/105x152/ka/false/kf/false/F7780E.jpg&quot;);">

and this is straight from our error log:

13:09:45 (0.2424) [header] requ_uri        /schauspieler/Kelly+Trump/"http:/www.flimmit.com/media/search/filmcovers/105x152/ka/false/kf/false/F6TYO8.jpg"
Mar 18 13:09:45 (0.0001) [header] server_addr     10.48.195.172
Mar 18 13:09:45 (0.0001) [header] http_user_agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; eSobiSubscriber 2.0.4.16; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; AskTbFF/5.9.1.14019)
Mar 18 13:09:45 (0.0001) [error] 404-Seite wurde aufgerufen
Mar 18 13:09:45 (0.0386) [header] remote_ip       212.95.7.69 - AT
Mar 18 13:09:45 (0.0001) [header] visitor_id      4095543, -
Mar 18 13:09:45 (0.0001) [header] requ_url        http://www.flimmit.com/schauspieler/Kelly+Trump/"http:/www.flimmit.com/media/search/filmcovers/105x152/ka/false/kf/false/F6TYO8.jpg"
Mar 18 13:09:45 (0.0001) [header] http_referer    http://www.flimmit.com/schauspieler/Kelly+Trump/
Mar 18 13:09:45 (0.0000) [header] finished at 0.2816

this was an IE8 client. on IE6 the request uri even has " instead of " in it.

So either we are all wrong or internet explorer is not respecting any standards?

Answer 1

use single quotes and I think it should be round brackets:

<div style="background: url('http://my-url.com/img.jpg')"></div>

The " works too (tested in jsFiddle):

<div style="background: url(&quot;http://my-url.com/img.jpg&quot;)">test</div>

Answer 2

First off, why?

You should be using () instead of '{}'

This way is best:

<div style="background: url('http://my-url.com/img.jpg')"></div>

This way is fine:

<div style="background: url(&quot;http://my-url.com/img.jpg&quot;)"></div>

This also works:

<div style="background: url(http://my-url.com/img.jpg)"></div>

This doesn't work:

<div style="background: url(\"http://my-url.com/img.jpg\")"></div>

Note: Remove the space after url .

Answer 3

The second option is the correct one, as far as escaping is concerned:

<div style="background: url {&quot;http://my-url.com/img.jpg&quot;}"></div>

To escape double-quotes in HTML you use " , whether in attributes or not.

See this jsfiddle (taken from this SO answer).

Answer 4

If you want to use multiple double and single quotation

you can combine double and single quotation together (nested)

style="background-image: url( 'image.jpg' );"

or

style='background-image: url( "image.jpg" );'

and available to be more nested

like (if you're using template for framework (Django))

 style="background-image: url( ' {% static "image.jpg"   %}' ); "