Adding backslashes before quotes

[Quasibobo]

Help please,

I am having difficulties with a function of mine working properly. It is a popup which uses the values of some textarea's to build a Preview of the page. But since in the textarea's people can use quotes it sometimes messes up the code for the popup.

Does anybody know a function, or has built one, which searches for quotes or forwardslashes and puts backslashes before it so it doesn't mess up the popup function?

Suggestions welcome

Don't eat yellow snow!

 

[LFI]

If you don't mind changing the quotes a user may have entered, then some variation of the following could work for you:

 var newText = tField.value.replace(/"/g,"`");
 newText = newText.replace(/'/g,"`");

Call a function with this (or a variation of this) in it before the popup is called. Send the newText as the contents.

'hope that helps.

--Dave

 

[BabyJeffy]

This function will return a "safe" version of your input text field.

function makeSafe(myVar)
{
	return(myVar.replace(/\\/g,"\\").replace(/\'/g,"\'").replace(/\"/g,"\""));
}

Cheers,
Jeff