Hi all, I have a small problem with a line of code. Can someone please let me know why this is not working correctly. Especially the \ escapes in code. Also, when the code is run it changes the & to & when it writes the html into a web page. Thanking you in advance. 
$newdiv='<!-- ADD DIVS -->'."\n".div({-style=>"position:absolute;left:
+".($startx+$arealeft)."px;top:".($starty+$areatop)."px;width:".$width
+."px;height:".$height."px;cursor:pointer;",-onclick=>"Start('$cgiurl?
+id=$custid');return true;",-onmouseover=>"this.T_WIDTH=170;this.T_BGC
+OLOR='#ffffff';return escape(';"\<center\>\<script language=javascrip
+t\>\n"document.write(mystats[".$imagedetails[0]."]);"\n\</script\>\<b
+r\>";\<img src=\'/cgi-bin/snapad.cgi?x=".($startx+$arealeft)."&amp;y=
+".$starty."&amp;width=".$width."&amp;height=".$height."&amp;image=1\'
+\>\</center\>');window.status='$imagedetails[1]';shw('$imagedetails[0
+]-pop',event);return true;",-onmouseout=>"window.status=' ';shw('$ima
+gedetails[0]-pop',event);return true;"},'')."\n";

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2006-01-04 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Wacky code'

In reply to Escaping special characters for HTML by Anonymous Monk

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