# Passing a variable with quotes to Javascript

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-a-variable-with-quotes-to-javascript/288119>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 11, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-a-variable-with-quotes-to-javascript/288119 "2009-05-11T15:34:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 11, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/passing-a-variable-with-quotes-to-javascript/288119/1 "2009-05-11T15:34:16Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to send a string from flash to javascript. The string can contain anything, from XML to quotes, symbols etc…

I’ve URL encoded the string, eg :

var u:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“javascript:showEditor(‘hello%20%27%3Cbr%20/%3E’)”);  
navigateToURL(u,"\_self");

but it I’m still getting an error in firefox:  
Syntax error - showEditor('hello ‘\<br /\>’)

Can anyone shed some light on this please.

Many thanks