Enforce Quote Style (quotes)

The --fix option on the command line automatically fixes problems reported by this rule.

JavaScript allows you to define strings in one of three ways: double quotes, single quotes, and backticks (as of ECMAScript 6). For example:

/*eslint-env es6*/

var double = "double";
var single = 'single';
var backtick = `backtick`;    // ES6 only

Each of these lines creates a string and, in some cases, can be used interchangeably. The choice of how to define strings in a codebase is a stylistic one outside of template literals (which allow embedded of expressions to be interpreted).

Many codebases require strings to be defined in a consistent manner.

Rule Details

This rule is aimed at ensuring consistency of string quotes and as such will report a problem when an inconsistent style is found.

The rule configuration takes up to two options:

  1. The first option is "double", "single" or "backtick" for double-quotes, single-quotes or backticks respectively. The default is "double".
  2. The second option takes two options:
    1. "avoidEscape": When using "avoidEscape", this rule will not report a problem when a string is using single-quotes or double-quotes so long as the string contains a quote that would have to be escaped otherwise. For example, if you specify "double" and "avoidEscape", the string 'He said, "hi!"' is not considered a problem because using double quotes for that string would require escaping the double quotes inside of the string. This option is off by default.
    2. "allowTemplateLiterals": when using "allowTemplateLiterals", this rule will not report a problem when a string is using backticks and option one is either "double" or "single".

When using "single" or "double", template literals that don’t contain a substitution, don’t contain a line break and aren’t tagged templates, are flagged as problems, even with the "avoidEscape" option. However they are not problems when "allowTemplateLiterals" is used.

Configuration looks like this:

[2, "single", {"avoidEscape": true, "allowTemplateLiterals": true}]

Deprecation notice: The avoid-escape option is a deprecated syntax and you should use the object form instead.

The following patterns are considered problems:

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "double"]*/

var single = 'single';
var unescaped = 'a string containing "double" quotes';

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "single"]*/

var double = "double";
var unescaped = "a string containing 'single' quotes";

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "double", {"avoidEscape": true}]*/

var single = 'single';
var single = `single`;

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "single", {"avoidEscape": true}]*/

var double = "double";
var double = `double`;

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "backtick"]*/

var single = 'single';
var double = "double";
var unescaped = 'a string containing `backticks`';

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "backtick", {"avoidEscape": true}]*/

var single = 'single';
var double = "double";

The following patterns are not considered problems:

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "double"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var double = "double";
var backtick = `back\ntick`;  // backticks are allowed due to newline
var backtick = tag`backtick`; // backticks are allowed due to tag

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "single"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var single = 'single';
var backtick = `back${x}tick`; // backticks are allowed due to substitution

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "double", {"avoidEscape": true}]*/

var single = 'a string containing "double" quotes';

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "single", {"avoidEscape": true}]*/

var double = "a string containing 'single' quotes";

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "double", {"allowTemplateLiterals": true}]*/

var single = 'single';
var single = `single`;

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "single", {"allowTemplateLiterals": true}]*/

var double = "double";
var double = `double`;

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "backtick"]*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var backtick = `backtick`;

/*eslint quotes: ["error", "backtick", {"avoidEscape": true}]*/

var double = "a string containing `backtick` quotes"

When Not To Use It

If you do not need consistency in your string styles, you can safely disable this rule.

Version

This rule was introduced in ESLint 0.0.7.

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