Single quotes in string with jQuery ajax

Question

I have run into a problem where the user enters data and if there are single quotes at all, the script errors out.

What's the best way to handle single quotes that users enter so it doesn't interfere with the jquery/javascript?

UPDATE:

I'm sending it through ajax to a database. here is the data parameter for a json ajax call.
data: "{str_" + sectionName + " :'" + UpdateText + "',EntityID: '" + EntityID + "' }",
with update text being the string that can contain the quotes.

Answer 1

You need to escape the quotes with a \ or depending on how you plan to use the string you can use the javascript escape and unescape functions.

alert(escape("mike's"));
alert(unescape(escape("mike's")));

Also check this out for ways to escape strings with jQuery