Thanks Massimo.  That is what I attempted first but cgi.escape only
handles &, <, and >. I was hoping for a single method that dealt with
everything.  No worries, it is easy enough to write one.

On Jul 5, 1:31 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> {{import cgi}}
>
> the replace
> {{=s.title}}
> with
> {{=cgi.escape(s.title,True)}}
>
> On Jul 4, 8:02 pm, "mr.freeze" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to pass a web2py string var that contains quotes,
> > apostrophes, slashes, etc. to an element's onmouseover  method
> > ( onmouseover="showTip(this,'{{=s.title}}','{{=s.notes}}');" ) but I
> > need to html escape it first in order to nest it in the javascript
> > quotes.  What is the best method?
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