HTML_ATTRIBUTE Function

21.10 HTML_ATTRIBUTE Function

Use this function to escape the values of HTML entity attributes. It hex escapes everything that is not alphanumeric or in one of the following characters:

Syntax

APEX_ESCAPE.HTML_ATTRIBUTE (
    p_string IN VARCHAR2 )
    return VARCHAR2 deterministic;

Parameters

Table 21-10 HTML_ATTRIBUTE Parameters

Parameter	Description
`p_string`	The text string that is escaped.

Example

This example generates a HTML list of of titles and text bodies. HTML entity attributes are escaped with HTML_ATTRIBUTE, whereas normal text is escaped with HTML and HTML_TRUNC.

BEGIN
    htp.p('<ul>');
    for l_data in ( select title, cls, body
        from my_topics )
    LOOP
    sys.htp.p('<li><span class="'||
        apex_escape.html_attribute(l_data.cls)||'">'||
        apex_escape.html(l_data.title)||'</span>');
    sys.htp.p(apex_escape.html_trunc(l_data.body));
    sys.htp.p('</li>');
    END LOOP;
    htp.p('</ul>');
END;