Escape apostrophe as \' with c:out JSP

Question

I have an object field with person\'s last name.

If I use ${person.lastName}, I get O\'Brian

If I use

Answer 1

You could define a new EL function that escapes strings for you.

E.g.

In Java

public class MyStringUtil {
  public static String escapeJs( String str )
  {
    // escape the string (e.g. replace ' with \')
  }
}

In a tag library descriptor file:

 escapeJs
 package.to.MyStringUtil
 
   java.lang.String escapeJs( java.lang.String )
 

Then in your JSP (assuming you've included your .tld with a prefix of foo: