single quote is creating issue in jquery. Prints '

Question

My code is

var subject = $("#subjectText").val();
$("#subjectText").val("Re: " + subject);

where $("#subjectText").val() is "MyMessage' My'Message"

but while showing it to the user $("#subjectText") is shown as "MyMessage' My'Message"

What could be the best js solution for this?

Please provide a jsfiddle which replicates your issue. Here works as expected: http://jsfiddle.net/2NTbm/ — A. Wolff, Mar 19 '14 at 12:39
You need to encode it in your server-side code. Which server-side technology you are using? — Kiran, Mar 19 '14 at 12:40
But the question is why value is encoded??? OP didn't provide enough info — A. Wolff, Mar 19 '14 at 12:41
I also can not reproduce it on jsfiddle but let me try again... I am using grails server side & gsp/js client side. — user1298426, Mar 19 '14 at 15:01
there are issues reported here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3330121/how-to-not-automatically-convert-my-single-quotes-to-39 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13775330/using-single-quotes-escaping-in-php — user1298426, Mar 19 '14 at 15:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '14 at 12:42

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Try escaping and unescaping the text. Here is an example using your string and field:

var subject = escape($("#subjectText").val());
$("#subjectText").val(unescape("Re: " + subject));

answered Mar 19 '14 at 12:42

Mark Hagan

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '14 at 16:14

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I am using grails. This is solved by adding 'decodeHTML()' to subjectText on server side.

answered Mar 19 '14 at 16:14

user1298426

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '14 at 16:19

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you are not allowed to use ' in the value. you can do this to fix the issue:

var subject = $("#subjectText").val().split("&#39;").join(" ");

answered Mar 19 '14 at 16:19

Vadims Samsinovs

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