Special char jquery

Question

I have a problem with > and jquery datatable shows '>' fine but when I click on the row I get the character > and I'm desperate.

Any solution?

$('#sample tbody').on('click', 'tr', function() {
    //console.log(table.row(this).data());
    $(".modal-bodya div span").text("");
    $(".new span").text(dataTable.row(this).data()[2]);

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use .html instead of .text – Kevin Y May 24 '22 at 07:16

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '22 at 07:24

The issue is because you're using text(), which does not encode HTML entities. To get the output you expect use html() instead.

let value = 'foo &gt; bar';

$(".text span").text(value);
$(".html span").html(value);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="text">Text: <span></span></div>
<div class="html">HTML: <span></span></div>

Special char jquery

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