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Quotes in HTML attribute value in UI Issues of WEB UI Tips and Tricks
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How to add special characters in html attribute values? 
Special characters making problem while adding with attribute values in HTML.

Double quotes - "
Single quotes - '
And operators - &
Lessthan operator - <

Characters should get encoded in attribute value.

Example: Wrong value
<div data="example"data">Data</div>

Should use
<div data="example&quot;data">Data</div>
Function to do encode
function encodeHTML(s) {
    return s.split('&').join('&amp;')
                  .split('<').join('&lt;')
                  .split('"').join('&quot;')
                  .split("'").join('&#39;');
}
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