RE: How to simplify this?

> In the HTML-output I need a javascript function with ' mark. 
> My template get two parameters, which I wish in single-quoted 
> mark. So I define additional three variables for this. Is 
> there a better way to do this?
You don't need the variables, just write the apostrophies in directly:

<a onclick="setArrow( {$colPos},'{$thead_id}'); return
sortTable('{$tbody_id}',{$colPos} );">
                                ^           ^                    ^
^

cheers
andrew