can ASP.NET properly parse a string to pass to JavaScript?

[PJ6]

I can probably code this up manually myself but I'd prefer to use a built-in
method that I'm sure exists... I have a message box client-side control
(thanks, Steve Orr) that uses the JavaScript alert() method to pass text to
a user in a dialogue box. Often I have messages containing text that
JavaScript doesn't like, like single quote characters. Does ASP.NET have a
method to parse text for JavaScript? Server.HTMLEncode doesn't seem to do
the trick.

TIA,
Paul

 

[Bruce Barker]

yes, but its private, so you can not call it. here is a simple one:

public static string JscriptQuote(string s)
{
s = s.Replace("'", "\\'");
s = s.Replace("\n", "\\n");
s = s.Replace("\r", "");
return "'" + s + "'";
}

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

 

[PJ6]

Private? They bent over backwards to give us methods for everything else.
That just doesn't make any sense to me.

Oh well. Thanks for the info.

Paul