Javascript Quotes Problem When Dynamically Adding Content

I'm trying to dynamically add content stored in a variable. However, single quotes are causing problems.

var dynamicelementcode = $("<div id='container'>" + data +  "</div>");
            dynamicelementcode.prependTo($('#wholecontainer')).hide().fadeIn(300).slideDown(1000);

If the data variable contains a single quote, it breaks my code. How can I solve this problem? The data variable gets its content from a serverside php script.

Any php/js/jquery solution appreciated

Edit:

PHP Code Serverside

$comment_body = "The boy's bicycle";

echo '{ "author": "'.$author.'", "message": "'.$comment_body.'","parentid": "'.$parent_id.'","currentid": "'.mysql_insert_id().'","timestored": "'.$timestampa.'" }';

Jquery Code, Clientside

var newrootcomment = $("<div class='comment'><div class='comment-holder'><div class='comment-body'>"+ data.message + "</div> <abbr class='timestamp' title=''>" + data.timestored + "</abbr><div class='aut'>" + data.author + "</div> <a href='#comment_form' class='reply' id='id"+ data.currentid + "'&开发者_高级运维gt;Reply</a> </div> </div>");
            newrootcomment.prependTo($('#wholecontainer')).hide().fadeIn(300).slideDown(1000);

var dynamicelementcode = $('<div id="container">').text(data)

jQuery text function automatically escapes quotes for you.

UPD. Escaping only single quotes:

var dynamicelementcode = $('<div id="container">').html(data.replace(/'/g,'&#039;'))

UPD 2. If you look at the source of your page you'll see something like "message": 'The boy's bicycle' - that's a syntactic error.

Here's a better way to pass PHP data to JavaScript, works with quotes too:

$comment_body = "The boy's bicycle";
echo json_encode(array(
  'author' => $author,
  'message' => $comment_body,
  'parentid' => $parent_id,
  'currentid' => mysql_insert_id(),
  'timestamp' => $timestamp
));

jQuery already has methods to insert text, you don't need to concatenate strings or take care yourself of escaping. Use the .text() method:

var dynamicelementcode = $('<div id="container"></div>').text(data);

Reference and examples: http://api.jquery.com/text/#text2