Entity code showing up

[gsam]

I'm building a template based batch report that includes some javascript.


<SCRIPT>
inputTextString="&mvt:option:data;" + "&mvt:option:data_long;"
alert(inputTextString);
</SCRIPT>

If the miva option data contains an ampersand it shows up as entity code in the javascript variable. For example if the option data is A&M the inputTextString shows A&amp;M .

Anyone know how to prevent this?

[gsam]

Re: Entity code showing up

I found several ways to decode HTML entities. I ended up using http://underscorejs.org/# which contains:

escape_.escape(string)
Escapes a string for insertion into HTML, replacing &, <, >, ", `, and 'characters.
_.escape('Curly, Larry & Moe');
=> "Curly, Larry &amp; Moe"

unescape_.unescape(string)
The opposite of escape, replaces &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &quot;, ` and &#x27;with their unescaped counterparts.
_.unescape('Curly, Larry &amp; Moe');
=> "Curly, Larry & Moe"

[Tetragpr]

Entity code showing up - Reply to Topic

I'm building a template based batch report that includes some javascript. <SCRIPT> inputTextString=&quot;&mvt:option:data;&quot; + &quot;&mvt:option:data_long;&quot; alert(inputTextString); </SCRIPT> If the miva option data contains an ampersand it shows up as entity code in the javascript variable. For example if the option data is A&M the inputTextString shows A&amp;M . Anyone know how to prevent this?

Sorry for that I interfere ... But I am very close to this topic . I can help with the answer.