I use the following code to set a css background image style. Note, the last slash before the file name is a different kind of slash. This url works fine like this, but the problem is that this slash is dropped by the time it get's to the
$('.clientBrowserThumb').slice(6,7).click( function(event) { showEntity0(1379); } ); $('.imageHolder').slice(7,8).css( "background-image", "url(/file_depot/ 0-10000000/0-10000/1/conman/thumbs\LeBaronTokyo1.jpg)" ); When this runs, the background-image of the element becomes: url(/file_depot/0-10000000/0-10000/1/conman/thumbsLeBaronTokyo1.jpg); Notice the slash is gone. I know this is an escape character, but I kind of confused about what level the issue occurs at. Is jQuery processing the escape characters? Is the browser chucking them out after they've been assigned to the css properties?