Error using Javascript and JSP, string with space gives `Unterminated string literal`

I have to pass a string value to JavaScript from JSP page.

I am using

display("<%=name%>")

It works fine 开发者_如何转开发but when i have string like 'sweet milk', JavaScript throws the error

Unterminated string literal

How to solve this?

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Your string contains single quotes - you can escape single quotes as "\x27" and double quotes as "\x22" and then pass it to javascript.

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You probably have characters in your String that should be escaped in Javascript. For example, if your string is My name is "John", your code will generate

var a = "My name is "John"";

which is invalid.

You should use StringEscapeUtils.escapeJavaScript from commons-lang to make sure everything is correctly escaped (single and double quotes, newlines, tabs, etc.).

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I guess there's an error in the generated JavaScript code. Is there any way to look at you page? I suggest to look at the generated source code of that page.