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Daft
Daft

Reputation: 10964

Apostrophe force exiting String

I have an input box which is populated with a string from an apex method. If I use an apostrophe in the String, I receive an 'Unexpected Identifier' error.

Heres the code:

            $('#textInput').append(
                $('<input>').addClass('ui-input-note').attr('placeholder', 'Notes')
                    .val('{! CurrentNote  }')
            );

This is what displays in the console:

            $('#textInput').append(
                $('<input>').addClass('ui-input-note').attr('placeholder', 'Notes')
                    .val('Jim's dog')
            );

I'm assuming the apostrophe is exiting the string. How do I get around this?

Other than using " ".

Cheers

Upvotes: 1

Views: 171

Answers (2)

Hemant Metalia
Hemant Metalia

Reputation: 30648

You can do it as follow:

  1. catch the escape character on its key in event 

     $(document).keypress(function(event){
       alert(String.fromCharCode(event.which)); 
  })

  2. append the \ with escape characters to the user input.

     //Append text to input element
  function jQ_append(id_of_input, text){
      if(text=='`'){
           text='\`';
       }
       $(id_of_input).val($(id_of_input).val() + text);
   }

Upvotes: 1

mucio
mucio

Reputation: 7119

You can use the escape() (and then the unescape() ) function.

Here more info and examples: JavaScript escape() Function

Upvotes: 1

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