How to escape quotes in inline styles?
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("http://my-url.com/img.jpg")"></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("http://www.flimmit.com/media/search/filmcovers/105x152/ka/false/kf/false/F7780E.jpg");">
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
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("http://my-url.com/img.jpg")">test</div>