using quotes in window.status......is it possible?

[pnj]

hey,
I am just curious......
I am writing to the status bar and would like to use a
single quote like "joe's coffee"
but when I do, javascript sees the single quote in joe's name and gets confused about [s coffee].
here is my code
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<a href="" onMouseover="(document.bgColor='#333333'); (window.status='joe's coffe') ; return true ;" onMouseout="(document.bgColor='#cccccc'); (window.status=''); ")>Boo</a>

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if this is possible let me know how.
if not no biggie.
if I confused you let me know and I'll try and re-word my question.
thanks

[noone]

Try using "\q" in your string where you want the double quotes.

That doesn't work..

You have to escape the quotes themselves:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
window.status="\"hello\"";
</SCRIPT>

You do the same for single quotes:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
window.status='Joe\'s Coffee';
</SCRIPT>

[pnj]

thanks, I'm gonna use that right now.