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Kirill Kudryaev
10,298 PointsHow this syntax work?
Hello everybody, please help. I don't understand why we use this syntax, namely, two pairs of quotes and two pluses href="' + photo.link + '". Thanks for help.
1 Answer
Iain Diamond
29,379 PointsphotoHTML += '<a href="' + photo.link + '" class="image">';
What's happening here is you're trying to embed a link variable, photo.link, within an HTML string.
Say for example the photo.link was set as http://www.someimagefile.com/myimage.jpg, you want to end up with the following HTML:
<a href="http://www.someimagefile.com/myimage.jpg" class="image">';
It's important point to remember is if you start a string in JS with a single quote, the interpreter will expect the string to end when it finds another single quote. Thus, you can embed double quotes within a single quoted string. The same holds true for embedding single quotes within double quoted strings.
In this way it's possible to use strings in JS that contain quote marks, by using the alternative quote version. E.g.
- Embedded Double Quote ' " '
- Embedded Single Quote " ' "
Hope this helps, iain
Shane Ashford
14,705 PointsShane Ashford
14,705 PointsSo what you're doing here is converting a link variable into a string in order to insert it? Without the single quotes it wouldn't be recognized as a string and instead what would be happening?