Firefox HTML Code

Okay,

So I have a script in Javascript, which basically puts a textbox on a popup.
And then writes some text in it.

e.g.

HTML Code:

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<textarea cols=80 rows=10 onFocus='this.select()'>
[img]justexthere&centrex=500moretextnow[/img]
</textarea>

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However, my problem is that it changes the "&cent" to a HTML code of: ¢. Which I have no idea how to stop this, so can anyone tell me how please :)

Hello

That's because the browser will automatically use the HTML entities

to solve this problem, you should give the '[img].....' like text plain using javascript, at the same time there are different ways according to the browser

for firefox, use this script line:

HTML Code:

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<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('textareaid').textContent = '[img]http://www.vbforums.com/[/img]';
// textContent turned to innerText in IE
</script>

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if you don't want to check the browser to define what property will you use, this has a solution too :)

include jQuery and use the function text() like this way:

HTML Code:

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<script type="text/javascript">
$('#textareaid').text('[img]http://www.vbforums.com/[/img]').html();
</script>

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regards :)

Feras Jobeir

Convert HTML entities:

Code:

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function htmlEntities(str) {
    return String(str).replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;').replace(/"/g, '&quot;');
}

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Usage:

Code:

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alert(htmlEntities("&centrex"));

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From CSS Tricks.