[Genome] including single quotes in track descriptions

Hiram Clawson hiram at soe.ucsc.edu
Fri Feb 2 11:14:55 PST 2007


Good Morning Nina:

Sorry, you can't (or rather, can not) have any quotes, ' or ", in the
descriptions or name of the track.  We don't have a quote quoting
mechanism in place for that business.

--Hiram

Nina Thiessen wrote:
> greetings,
> 
> Is there a way to have single quotes appear in a track description?
> 
> When I submit a track with a description string such as
> track ... description="Something 'fun' to look at"...
> The title of the track appears in the genome browser image without the 
> quotes, ie:  Something fun to look at
> 
> thank you,
> Nina


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