You can also use a heredoc:

print <<HTML;
<a href=""
   onclick="this.element.insert(
     "<tr id="someid">
       <td>
        <a href="" onclick="this.function.test('')">
        </a>
       </td>
      </tr>') ">
HTML

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This also allows you to make the code readable (as I hope I've done), and therefore identify and fix any mis-matched tags and quotes.

However, in this example you're using double quotes for the call to insert, then you're also using double quotes for the name of the tr element. That can only lead to heartbreak .. you'll either have to use less quotes or escape some of them. I think the following should work:

print <<HTML;
<a href=""
   onclick=this.element.insert(
     "<tr id=someid>
       <td>
        <a href='' onclick=this.function.test('')>
        </a>
       </td>
      </tr>")>
HTML

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Alex / talexb / Toronto

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In reply to Re: Perl, JavaScript and quoting/escaping by talexb
in thread Perl, JavaScript and quoting/escaping by isync

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