Escape character " is not escaped

Question

I have an application that posts information to a browser. I have the same problem with all the HTML tags.
The problem arises when I escape " (quote). For example, this function:
protected String formatAnswerHTML( String answerText ){
StringBuffer returnString = new StringBuffer("<font class=\"agentName\">");
returnString.append(agentName);
returnString.append(": </font><font class=\"agentMssg\">");
returnString.append(super.insertHyperlinksAtOptions(answerText));
returnString.append("</font>");
return returnString.toString();
generates the following output:
<FONT class=\"agentName\">Alex: </FONT><FONT class=\"agentMssg\">Hello and welcome to Ericsson Customer service. Please enter your question in plain English or select from the menu below.<BR></FONT>
Does someone has a clue as to why the \" doesn't work?

Answer 1

If you need to fix it quickly, and if it works for your browser, you can use single quotes instead of double quotes, so you don't have to escape them. Like:
print("<img src='image.gif'>");
That should work, since most browsers let you use single quotes. But if you are strict on consistancy, you might not like having single quotes in some places and double quotes in others...but that's only if you are worried about it.