Function to make strings javascript friendly

[Billy Boone]

I want to put some dynamic text into some href's on my form:

<a href="<url>" onMouseOver="window.status='<dynamic text>'; return true"
onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true>

The dynamic text will from time to time have single quotes or double quotes
in them - so before writing a function to make these dynamic strings work -
wanted to check to see if such a function exist (that will handle any
troublesome characters).

Any insight/pointers you could provide - much appreciated.

BBB

[Daniel Kirsch]

Billy Boone wrote:

I want to put some dynamic text into some href's on my form:

<a href="<url>" onMouseOver="window.status='<dynamic text>'; return true"
onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true>

The dynamic text will from time to time have single quotes or double quotes
in them - so before writing a function to make these dynamic strings work -
wanted to check to see if such a function exist (that will handle any
troublesome characters).

Any insight/pointers you could provide - much appreciated.

You may try escape() and unescape()
Or for newer UAs encodeURIComponent() and decodeURIComponent()

Daniel

[Billy Boone]

escape won't work (at least from what I've read) - need the text to be human
readable
I Am Here

Not:

I%20Am%20Here.
"Daniel Kirsch" <Iw*****************@gmx.de> wrote in message
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Billy Boone wrote:

I want to put some dynamic text into some href's on my form:

<a href="<url>" onMouseOver="window.status='<dynamic text>'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true>

The dynamic text will from time to time have single quotes or double quotes in them - so before writing a function to make these dynamic strings work - wanted to check to see if such a function exist (that will handle any
troublesome characters).

Any insight/pointers you could provide - much appreciated.

You may try escape() and unescape()
Or for newer UAs encodeURIComponent() and decodeURIComponent()

Daniel

[Daniel Kirsch]

Billy Boone wrote:

escape won't work (at least from what I've read) - need the text to be human
readable

Well, if your string is allready a JavaScript string, it should work
without any further changes to the string.

If not, you may show us a concrete example of what you have, what you
get and what you want.

Daniel

[Matt Kruse]

Billy Boone wrote:

I want to put some dynamic text into some href's on my form:
<a href="<url>" onMouseOver="window.status='<dynamic text>'; return
true" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true>
The dynamic text will from time to time have single quotes or double
quotes in them - so before writing a function to make these dynamic
strings work - wanted to check to see if such a function exist (that
will handle any troublesome characters).

You need to do this on the server-side.

Do your normal HTML-escaping (if the code will be within an HTML tag as
above) then escape the following:
' to \'
" to \"
(newline) to \n

That should cover it, and the text will then be safe enough to put within
your quoted string.

I did this in Struts, for example, by making my own <bean:write> tag which
took another argument of javascriptEscape="true" to do these conversions.

--
Matt Kruse
http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com

[Billy Boone]

I'm getting info from a database:

So I may have a string:

Today's date is 6/8/2005

So the single quote will mess things up. Or the string could come with a
double quote in it.

"Daniel Kirsch" <Iw*****************@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:d8*************@news.t-online.com...

Billy Boone wrote:

escape won't work (at least from what I've read) - need the text to be human readable

Well, if your string is allready a JavaScript string, it should work
without any further changes to the string.

If not, you may show us a concrete example of what you have, what you
get and what you want.

Daniel

[Martin Honnen]

Billy Boone wrote:

I want to put some dynamic text into some href's on my form:

<a href="<url>" onMouseOver="window.status='<dynamic text>'; return true"
onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true>

The dynamic text will from time to time have single quotes or double quotes
in them - so before writing a function to make these dynamic strings work -
wanted to check to see if such a function exist (that will handle any
troublesome characters).

If you are generating the dynamic text on the server then it is a server
side problem where the solution depends on the scripting language used
on the server.
Are you using JavaScript on the server? Otherwise ask in a group about
the server side language of your choice.
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[ASM]

Billy Boone wrote:

I want to put some dynamic text into some href's on my form:
don't know what is "dynanic" text
<a href="<url>" onMouseOver="window.status='<dynamic text>'; return true"
onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true>

onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">

and p e ?
onMouseOver="window.status=<dynamic text>; return true;"
--
Stephane Moriaux et son [moins] vieux Mac

[fox]

Billy Boone wrote:

I want to put some dynamic text into some href's on my form:

<a href="<url>" onMouseOver="window.status='<dynamic text>'; return true"
onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true>

The dynamic text will from time to time have single quotes or double quotes
in them - so before writing a function to make these dynamic strings work -
wanted to check to see if such a function exist (that will handle any
troublesome characters).

Any insight/pointers you could provide - much appreciated.

BBB

String.prototype.addslashes = function()
{
return this.replace(/([\'\"])/g,"\\$1");
}