document.write outputing "&" as & in URL
So i am having more trouble with Javascript!
Everything was working great until i made a slight change to my script - just added a new function and assigned the value to a variable that was before static.
i am using document.write to print out a tag with a dynamic url inside for the source.
The only problem is for some reason it is printing the & in the URL as & and becuase of this my include will not work (its a JSON external URL and im using the callback function).
For example it do:
document.write('<scr' + 'ipt src="http://jsonsource.com/index.php?j=t&y=r&h=4" type="text/javascript"><\/scr' + 'ipt>');but it is printing the "&" as
&
It is stopping the JSON from working?
I even took the actual value of the URL and inserted it as innerHTML to another element on the page and it was using the &.
Can anyone advise me how i can get javascript to print it as & and not &
would be really greatful of any help.
greg posted this at 01:36 — 27th March 2009.
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Have you tried using the entity?
&document.write('<scr' + 'ipt src="http://jsonsource.com/index.php?j=t&y=r&h=4" type="text/javascript"><\/scr' + 'ipt>');It's common practice anyway...
decibel.places posted this at 03:42 — 27th March 2009.
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or you could try escaping and unescaping the string: "&" = "%26"
btw - document.write will not work in an XHTML doc
benf posted this at 07:43 — 27th March 2009.
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Yes i have tried all of these options, escaping and using
&and none appear to work. Only when i use the & does it work.i did previously createElement and appendChild to insert the tag on the page. However, the callback function did not work. Only when i document.write did it work.
Any ideas on this?
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