title: Passing a string with apostrophe to javascript function
body: <p>I have a situation where I need to pass a string with an apostrophe in it to a javascript function.  This function then takes the string and uses it to find the element by id in the DOM.  As an example, I need to call:</p>
  
  <pre><code>showElement('what's')
  
  function showElement(element_id){
       document.getElementById(element_id).style.display = "block";
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried escaping the apostrophe like showElement('what\'s') but that did not seem to work.  Is this possible at all?</p>