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Unescape apostrophe (') in JavaScript?
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Closed 8 years ago.
I have a simple string which is
Company's
Now I have some javascript which is ran when a form is submitted
var jsCompanyName = '#Model.Name';
var unescapedCompanyName = unescape(jsCompanyName);
$('.selector-input').val(unescapedCompanyName);
$('.selector-input-id').val('#Model.Id');
Going thought with a debugger, my var unescapedCompanyName is still "Company's" even after the unescape function, does anyone have any idea on why this isn't removing ' and replacing it with a '
The unescape() function has nothing to do with HTML syntax. It's for handling escapes in URL syntax, which is a completely different thing. (It's also deprecated even for its intended purpose.)
There's no built-in function to deal with HTML escapes. However, code running in a web browser can do something like this:
function html_unescape(s) {
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.innerHTML = s;
return div.textContent || div.innerText; // IE is different
}
You can do this easily with JQUERY if you really need to:
function htmlDecode(value) {
return $('<div/>').html(value).text();
}
var str = 'Company's';
console.log(htmlDecode(str)); // Company's
JSFIDDLE.
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ES6 template literals vs. concatenated strings
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Closed 1 year ago.
I'm start coding.
While I was watching a lecture, I saw code like this.
var coworkers = ['go', 'hello', 'hi', 'doit'];
<script type="text/javascript">
var i = 0;
while(i < coworkers.length){
document.write('<li>'+coworkers[i]+'</li>');
i = i + 1;
}
But But when I searched, Said to use ${variable} in JavaScript. and It didn't work.
How are +variable+ and ${variable} different in javascript? Thanks :)
Those placeholders, like ${variable}, can only be used in template literals, which are always enclosed in backticks(the key right below you escape key).
If it still doesn’t work, maybe you’re using an older browser?
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Closed 10 years ago.
Possible Duplicate:
HtmlSpecialChars equivalent in Javascript?
I couldn't find a good string sanitization function to be safely used inside HTML. I was wondering if this is a good approach:
String.prototype.sanitize = function() {
return $('<div></div>').text(this).html();
}
For sanitizing against XSS, yes. For sanitizing against SQL injections, no.
It's better (and still easy) to remove the jquery requirement:
String.prototype.htmlspecialchars = function() {
var span = document.createElement('span'),
txt = document.createTextNode(this);
span.appendChild(txt);
return span.innerHTML;
}
The coupling with document still isn't so bad, because that's where it's going to be used anyway, but I prefer using successive String.replace() like in this answer.
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Replace method doesn't work
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Closed 3 years ago.
This seems so simple and trivial but it is not working. Here is my javascript:
var url = "/computers/";
console.log(url);
url.replace(/\//gi, " ");
console.log(url);
And here is the output in my browsers console:
/computers/
/computers/
As you can see nothing changes. As you can tell from the code I'm trying to replace the forward slashes with spaces. What am I doing wrong?
url = url.replace(/\//gi, " ");
Nothing changes because you're not assigning the result of the replacement to a variable. Add url = url.replace()
url.replace(/\//gi, " "); returns the resulting string (in javascript you can't modify an existing string), you are not assigning it to anything
assign it like so:
url = url.replace(/\//gi, " ");
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Replace method doesn't work
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Closed 8 years ago.
I followed some documentation to use the JavaScript replace function and it's not changing anything. No errors are thrown. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? The variable is retrieved from XML - maybe it needs to be cast as a string or something?
for (var i = 0, iln = projects.length; i < iln; i++){
var thumb = projects[i].get('thumb');
thumb.replace("200.jpg", "640.jpg");
console.log(thumb) //200.jpg not replaced
}
The full thumb value should look like this:
http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/160/895/160895498_200.jpg
Is there a better way to find and replace things?
Assign the value back into thumb.
thumb = thumb.replace("200.jpg", "640.jpg");
Try:
thumb = thumb.replace("200.jpg", "640.jpg");
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Is it possible to do ".value +=" in JQuery?
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Closed 8 years ago.
Since I've moved to jQuery development has sped up for a great deal, but there is one thing which has become a little more time-consuming: appending some string to an attribute/value.
For example, if you wanted to append a letter to the value of a textbox, you would normally do:
input.value += 'a';
but now using jQuery, it has become:
input.val(input.val() + 'a');
I know it wouldn't be too hard to create a function which can do this and then append that function to jQuery.fn, but I was rather wondering whether there is such a function perhaps already available. I haven't found any so far. Or is there perhaps a better technique of appending a string to a value/attribute than what I'm doing at the moment?
If you know that your element has a value attribute, there is no reason not to use
input.value += 'a';
There is nothing to stop you using plain JavaScript in your jQuery scripts.
In fact,
input.val(input.val() + 'a');
has no benefits over using plain 'js', except if your input is a jQuery object and you want to chain methods.
I'd suggest overall
var $input = $('#someInput');
$input[0].value += 'a'; //get the DOM object from your jQuery object