How To Escape Html Characters In Javascript For Eval()

today i was working on a script which required me to run some html code but i was using the eval() function in javascript and jquery to execute the command. i tried several things..

i tried using the backlash \\ - that didint work

if you go to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3830163/how-to-escape-special-characters-within-eval-using-javascript
it tells u to use " instead of \\"
i tried using " instead of \\" but that only worked on Firefox and Chrome, but not Internet Explorer

so what finally worked? well, i was using php to generate the HTML code so i simple used the function, and it coverted all the HTML code to be used by the eval() function in javascript.

hope that helps anyone