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Michele
Michele

Reputation: 159

Display HTML special characters stored in JavaScript string

I need to dynamically append a text to a <div> with JavaScript. This text is retrieved from a database and it also contains special character as ü or '. Now i'm using the createTextNode() but the HTML special characters like &xxxx; aren't "resolved" then the output isn't correct.

Is there any method to print out the text with special character displayed correctly?

Thanks for any reply

Upvotes: 3

Views: 765

Answers (2)

R-J
R-J

Reputation: 936

For ü you will have to use \xfc

<div id="result"></div>
$('#result').text('\xfc');

Here is working example: http://jsfiddle.net/djnnvc7m/

And here is the symbol table. Refer to 'HEX' column in table. http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

Upvotes: 1

wwwmarty
wwwmarty

Reputation: 858

I think it will do exactly what you want if you use innerHTML instead of createTextNode().

Upvotes: 4

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