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Oct 30.2006

I’m getting an error message when I attempt to pass a string variable with an apostrophe in it, to a Javascript function. The apostrphe is inside a string variable retrieved from an Oracle database. How can I pass a string variable with an apostrophe in it to a javascript function?

Example:

<cfset comments = ‘It’s a problem’

<a class=myMenu href=”javascript:submitform( ‘#comments#’)”>#comments#</a>

function submitform(comments)

to post a comment
JavaScript

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@felgallOct 30.2006 — Three solutions:

comments = "It's a problem"

comments = 'It's a problem'

comments = 'It&apos;s a problem'
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@DDANIEL11authorOct 30.2006 — I gave you a bad example. The variable is coming from an Oracle database. I have no control over it and the position of the apostrophe in it.
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@slaughtersOct 30.2006 — Encode it with a serverside HTML Encode command (URLEncoder for Java/JSP) after getting it from the database, but prior to passing it to your page.

OR

Do a simple string replace on the server side using Regular expressions to replace the single tic mark with one of the three replacements mentioned by felgall

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For ColdFusion use [URL=http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funca114.htm]URLEncodedFormat[/URL]

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@vladiboOct 30.2006 — I think this is rather ColdFusion than JavaScript question. You can encode it on the server side as it was suggested in the previous answer
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