innerHTML encoding? 1

[vbkris]

hi,
i have a div that has the following content:

<div name='Lnk'>
<a href='hello.asp?id=1&title=Title'>Title</a>
</div>

when i give the command:

content1=document.getElementsByName('Lnk').innerHTML
//content is something like this:
//<a href='hello.asp?id=1&amp;title='Title'...

ie it has encoded the & to & in the query string. is there a function to take it back to &.

Note: i cannot use document.getElementId of the link.

thanks



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[kaht]

have you tried unescape?

content1 = unescape(document.getElementsByName('Lnk').innerHTML);

-kaht

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Surely as getElementsByName returns a collection, you should be using this:

content1 = document.getElementsByName('Lnk')[0].innerHTML

instead of this:

content1 = document.getElementsByName('Lnk').innerHTML

I don't know if it will make any difference or not, but it's something to try all the same ;o)

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[vbkris]

right in one...

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Strange - I thought that unescape was used for URL encoding (such as %20 for space, etc) - in fact, if I do this:

alert(unescape('abc&def'));

I see this:

abc&def

and not

abc&def

So am at a loss to work out why it's working for you.

How strange!

Dan

 

[vbkris]

this gave me normal results:

alert(unescape('Hey>asd'))

gave me Hey>asd

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Strange... I saved this as an HTML file:

<script type="text/javascript">
alert(unescape('Hey&gt;asd'));
</script>

An ran it in IE6 on Win XP Pro, and I see:

Hey>asd

in the alert box.

Getting ever stranger ;o)

Dan

 

[vbkris]

my browser is IE5 so unless there is a compatibility issue...

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