html attributes with single quotes produce invalid output

[milahu]

html single quotes are converted to doublequotes
but doublequotes in the attribute value are not escaped

input.md

# test

<div title='hello "world" again'>
  hover me
</div>

output.html

<h1>test</h1>

<div title="hello "world" again">
  hover me
</div>

expected: either/or

• keep single quotes in attributes, and hope that the input is valid html
• convert attributes to double quotes, and escape " to " in attribute values

[Eric Huss]

Can you say more about why it appears to be converted for you? Pasting your example, then HTML looks like:

> rg "hover me" book/chapter_1.html
147:  hover me
~/Temp/z47> rg -C4 "hover me" book/chapter_1.html
143-                <div id="content" class="content">
144-                    <main>
145-                        <h1 id="test"><a class="header" href="#test">test</a></h1>
146-<div title='hello "world" again'>
147:  hover me
148-</div>
149-
150-                    </main>
151-

If you are looking at the source via the DOM inspector, then I believe that is just the way it is displayed. The attribute should still have the value with the double quotes:

Here it shows the DOM value is the string as expected.

[milahu]

If you are looking at the source via the DOM inspector

yes ...

the "view page source" source is correct: single quotes are preserved

my actual problem is empty lines in html

<div title="hello

world">

  hover me

</div>

which of course breaks the markup

sorry for the noise