Using " or ' in selector strings

Question

What is the difference between using this

$('.container').text();

and this:

$(".container").text();

both (") and (') work but what's the difference?

Answer 1

The long and short of it is that there is no difference whatsoever.

Answer 2

There is no difference in this case, you can use either apostrophes (') or quotation marks (") to delimit strings in Javascript.

Where you can see a difference, is when you need to use apostrophes or quotation marks inside a string. If you delimit a string using apostrophes, you have to escape apostrophes inside the string, but not quotation marks, and vice versa.

Example:

var html = '<div class="info"></div>';

vs.

var html = "<div class=\"info\"></div>";

Answer 3

from my experience, generally no differences.

Answer 4

They are the same, there is no difference, just a coding convenience.

Answer 5

There is no difference, except for when you want either double or single quotes to appear inside your string:

$(".continer[rel='hello']");