JavaScript function to the rescue! Jul08 '06
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# (2 of 6): Matthom
2 days, 21 hours after the fact. (Tue 11 Jul 2006, 8:16 AM CST)
Ooh tasty... Even better. I will try that, thanks. I am calling it for each, yes, so that should be better.
# (3 of 6): Wilson
4 months, 3 weeks after the fact. (Tue 28 Nov 2006, 11:21 AM CST)
This blog saved my life. I was implementing an AJAX submit for my site, which involves a WYSIWYG editor. Needless to say, all those quotes, ampersands and html entities totally screwed everything up. I was tearing my hair out trying to find a solution over this and scouring the web like an insane spider with a scouring pad. I was about to give up, and write a lenghtly and inefficient function to replace ALL HTML ENTITIES with a custom tag. Luckily, i found this. Thank god.
# (4 of 6): Matthom
4 months, 3 weeks after the fact. (Tue 28 Nov 2006, 11:27 AM CST)
Yea it really is a lifesaver. Imagine all the extra coding if that function didn't exist. Yuck.
Escaping invalid characters is not how I like to spend my Sunday afternoon.
# (5 of 6): Troy » alivewebs.com.au
5 months, 3 weeks after the fact. (Wed 27 Dec 2006, 10:17 PM CST)
I too will thank you for this.
Until now I have been using encodeURI() but I suddenly found my AJAX cutting a variable off when it had an ampersand (
# (6 of 6): Scott
12 months after the fact. (Sun 08 Jul 2007, 10:45 AM CST)
I'm new to sending things via POST in ajax. And I am building a WYSIWIG type application. ajax is perfect for this type of application, but boy did it not like ampersands. Luckily, google served this page up for me.
Saved me a lot of hassle.
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# (1 of 6): Jennifer Grucza » jennifergrucza.com
2 days, 2 hours after the fact. (Mon 10 Jul 2006, 1:11 PM CST)
Actually, I think you might want encodeURIComponent() instead of encodeURI(), assuming that you’re calling it for each parameter value that you’re adding to the query string.