ASP.NET quote character encoding causes problems when setting a control's property

Question

I have an ASP.NET web application and at a certain point I do this:

mycontrol.stringparameterforjscript = \"document.getElementById(\'\" + myotherparam + \"\').v         


        

Answer 1

I think you might need the @ on both string literals in your assignment, and remove the slashes:

mycontrol.stringparameterforjscript = @"document.getElementById('" + myotherparam + @"').value = 'Hello'";

EDIT

How I did it:

On the .aspx:

<asp:Textbox ID="tbTest" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" />

In the code:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string myotherparam = "paramval";
    tbTest.Attributes.Add("onfocus", @"document.getElementById('" + myotherparam + @"').value = 'Hello'");
}

Resultant output:

<textarea name="tbTest" rows="2" cols="20" id="tbTest" onfocus="document.getElementById('paramval').value = 'Hello'"></textarea>

Answer 2

OK, I finally managed it. HTML Encoded strings recognized by the javascript engine, how's it possible? As you will see there is nothing to worry about in what happens.