How do I properly escape quotes inside HTML attributes?

Question

I have a drop down on a web page which is breaking when the value string contains a quote.

The value is \"asd, but in the DOM it always appears as an em

Answer 1

" is the correct way, the third of your tests:

test

You can see this working below, or on jsFiddle.

alert($("option")[0].value);

  Test

Alternatively, you can delimit the attribute value with single quotes:

test