the problem is that I don't know what they may enter, it could be anything. I just need to feed back whatever they entered in the middle of some js action. the objective is that whatever they enter - any characters - should simply be taken as a string by the browser
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:52 PM Val K <valq7...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think there is no universal way because js is just a string in python > context, > you have to escape quotes with backslash (replace " with \") where it is > required to prevent crumbling strings in js-code > What is the second char? dot? > > > On Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 8:32:08 PM UTC+3, Vlad wrote: >> >> I have a form with an input text field. >> >> The form is submitted via POST. >> >> The vars value is read and passed over into response.js to run some >> action. >> >> All works perfect until that field has special characters, like " and the >> like. Javascript does't like it. It doesn't see that as a string, but >> rather as a part of the js code so it breaks. >> >> How do I encode / convert that field's value so that it wouldn't affect >> html/js on the output? >> > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/fSTMUW9ObVU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/254be43e-4d76-4b33-ab2b-7434eaad85b8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/254be43e-4d76-4b33-ab2b-7434eaad85b8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/CABZ%2BKCCBLBGB44xtNO0OCFLGXPoSy9wd3183pdkmUQM63DFR0g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
