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skillsboy
skillsboy

Reputation: 349

remove/replace Unicode characters javascript

<span class="X">(&#8237;−&#8237;500&#8236;&#8236;</span>

I get the innerHTML from this span: var abc = document.querySelector("SELECTOR").innerHTML

It shows as "(-500" but when I copy it to the notepad it comes with the a invisible Unicode, how can I get the innerHTML just as simple text "-500" but without the Unicode and without the "(".

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2157

Answers (1)

Alnitak
Alnitak

Reputation: 340055

You have to explicitly remove the invisible Unicode characters and convert some Unicode characters into their ASCII equivalents:

let x = document.querySelector('.x').innerHTML;
x = x.replace(/\u202d/g, '');  // (0x202d = 8237 "LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE")
x = x.replace(/\u2212/g, '-'); // (0x2212 = 8277 "MINUS SIGN")

Upvotes: 3

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