Dealing with JS strings that contain quotes
This page is getting a JavaScript error causing the comments element to not be displayed. Normally it would look like This.
Before being interpreted the script looks like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
if(<$BlogItemNumber$> >= 110883032941464400)
{
document.write("<div id=\"comments\">");
document.write("<BlogItemCommentsEnabled>");
document.write("<a name=\"comments\"></a>");
document.write("<p><strong>Comments:</strong></p>");
document.write("<BlogItemComments>");
document.write("<a name=\"<$BlogCommentNumber$>\"></a>");
document.write("<p>");
commentCounter++;
document.write(commentCounter + ") ");
document.write('<$BlogCommentAuthor$> @ <a href=\"#<$BlogCommentNumber$>\">
<$BlogCommentDateTime$></a>: <$BlogCommentDeleteIcon$>');
document.write("</p>");
document.write("<p class=\"commentBody\">");
document.write('<$BlogCommentBody$><br />');
document.write("</p>");
document.write("</BlogItemComments>");
document.write("<p><br /><a href=\"<$BlogItemCommentCreate$>\">Add a Comment</a></p>");
document.write("</BlogItemCommentsEnabled>");
document.write("</div> <!-- end comments -->");
}
else
{
document.write("<div class=\"postInfo\">");
document.write("[");
backBlog('<$BlogItemNumber$>','Daily Random');
document.write("]");
document.write("</div> <!-- end postInfo -->");
}
</script><$BlogCommentBody$> is a string that may contain either single or double quotes, or both, or neither. How I can write that string to the page without it getting messed up by the quotes? I don't have any control over how the input is gathered from the user, so I'm forced to deal directly with the string itself. Is there some way to replace the quotes w/ the ASCII values, or do some kind of
type thing to the string?
dk01 posted this at 02:32 — 2nd March 2005.
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Can you use php?
If so see the php functions addslashes() and stripslashes().
In Javascript you can try using the escape and unescape functions.
Hope that helps.
-dk
IanD posted this at 02:36 — 2nd March 2005.
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Can't use PHP, unfortunately
escape and unescape won't work because the quotes in the string would break the statement. e.g., escape("This sentance has a "double" quote"); or escape('This sentance has a 'single' quote');
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IanD posted this at 03:53 — 2nd March 2005.
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If I could use PHP I wouldn't even need to mess with the quotes 'cause I could just do
<?php
(if postid > x)
{
plain html stuff
}
else
{
other html stuff
}
?>
Is there any way to do something like that in JavaScript? I tried but couldn't get it working.
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dk01 posted this at 04:04 — 2nd March 2005.
He has: 516 posts
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Ok now I see what you are doing. I know this way sounds really dumb but have you thought of just having it all in a hidden input feild? Its the only way I can see you getting out of the binds of JS.
Then you could just myVal = escape(formname.elementname.value);
-dk
IanD posted this at 23:53 — 3rd March 2005.
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Actually, I'm just gonna go ahead and do everything in the if condition in HTML but inside a hidden element, and then if the condition is true I'll change the visibility of the element.
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IanD posted this at 00:07 — 4th March 2005.
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Joined: Sep 1999
It worked
Thanks for the inspiration dk01
dk01 posted this at 16:39 — 4th March 2005.
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Glad I could help. Site looks great.
-dk
IanD posted this at 19:07 — 4th March 2005.
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Joined: Sep 1999
Thanks
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