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

Another option is replacing double quotes with single quotes if you don't mind whatever it is. But I don't mention this one:

test

I mention this one:

test

In my case I used this solution.