Treating Special Characters

[Michael Hill]

I have a number of scripts that take special characters and convert them
to their ascii equivalents and them store them in the database.

However I am running into a problem that I have some of those fields are
loaded to an array and inserted into cells dynamically. As an example
the array would be:

var my_array = [ ["52","Source Data"], ["19","Body &
Soap"] ];

Then I have some javascript that creates the cell and inserts the value
into a cell text node like:

var x = my_array[1][1]; // this would be "Body & Soap"

//create the cell
myTD=document.createElement("TD");

//create the text node
myText=document.createTextNode(x);

// Appends each node following the structure.
myTD.appendChild(myText);

What I see on the output is: "Body & Soap"

What I should see is: "Body & Soap"

Anyone know how to get around this?

Mike

 

[Martin Honnen]

Michael Hill wrote:

However I am running into a problem that I have some of those fields are
loaded to an array and inserted into cells dynamically. As an example
the array would be:

var my_array = [ ["52","Source Data"], ["19","Body &
Soap"] ];

Then I have some javascript that creates the cell and inserts the value
into a cell text node like:

var x = my_array[1][1]; // this would be "Body & Soap"

//create the cell
myTD=document.createElement("TD");

//create the text node
myText=document.createTextNode(x);

// Appends each node following the structure.
myTD.appendChild(myText);

What I see on the output is: "Body & Soap"

What I should see is: "Body & Soap"

No, what you see is correct, you create a text node with the content
Body & Soap
and that is what you see.
If you want to have the ampersand literally then store
"Body & Soap"
in the JavaScript string.