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I came up with a hack to escape HTML using jQuery and I'm wondering if anyone sees a problem with it. $('<i></i>').text(TEXT_TO_ESCAPE).html(); The <i> tag is just a dummy as jQuery ...
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Possible Duplicate: Escaping HTML strings with jQuery JavaScript/jQuery HTML Encoding For example, if I wanted to show the user the string x < 3 in HTML I would need to replace the < ...
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In javascript how it's possible to replace all occurrence of &,<,> in a string I tried this var str="<>&"; str.replace("&","&amp").replace("<","&lt").replace(">...
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I wrote following code: function convert(string) { var before = '&'; var after= '&amp;'; var pattern = new RegExp(before, 'g'); return string.replace(pattern,after); } convert("Dolce ...
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I'm trying to print plain html from javascript and can't figured out how to do so. Example: $('#elem').html('This is a normal string'); // --> This is a normal string $('#elem').html('This <b&...
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In my game, I changed the list of players from canvas to html, due to which a vulnerability appeared that any player can give himself a name into which he can insert js code, for example, <script&...
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I have a field Value for segmentations as <Value TBD>, which is not getting printed in the HTML table. This is the way I'm trying to populate the value: if($("th[data-field='rating']").get(0)...
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How can I display JSON in an easy-to-read (for human readers) format? I'm looking primarily for indentation and whitespace, with perhaps even colors / font-styles / etc.
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I want to display text to HTML by a JavaScript function. How can I escape HTML special characters in JavaScript? Is there an API?
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The example I see posted all of the time seems like it's suboptimal, because it involves concatenating strings, which seems so not jQuery. It usually looks like this: $.getJSON("/Admin/GetFolderList/"...
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Apparently, this is harder to find than I thought it would be. And it even is so simple... Is there a function equivalent to PHP's htmlspecialchars built into JavaScript? I know it's fairly easy to ...
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Are they the same as XML, perhaps plus the space one (&nbsp;)? I've found some huge lists of HTML escape characters but I don't think they must be escaped. I want to know what needs to be escaped....
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I have got an array which I am looping through. Every time a condition is true, I want to append a copy of the HTML code below to a container element with some values. Where can I put this HTML to re-...
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I'm writing a Chrome extension that involves doing a lot of the following job: sanitizing strings that might contain HTML tags, by converting <, > and & to &lt;, &gt; and &amp;, ...
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I'm writing the JS for a chat application I'm working on in my free time, and I need to have HTML identifiers that change according to user submitted data. This is usually something conceptually shaky ...
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