Question

I am having a problem with special character in javascript.
I have a form with a input text that has the following string:

10/10/2010

after a form.serialize(); I get this string as

10%2F10%2F2010

The ‘/’ character is converted to its ASCII code %2F.

I would be able to convert that using String.fromCharCode(ascii_code) but I have many inputs in my form so these string is somenthing like:

var=14&var=10%2F10%2F2010&var=10%2F10%2F2010&var=10%2F10%2F2010

Just an example to state that I would have to go through this string (“manually”) and find those value and convert it.

Is there any easy way to perform that conversion?
Strange thing because I did not have that problem before, I am not sure why this is happening now.

Answer 1

I happens that way because that’s how it’s meant to be:

The .serialize() method creates a text string in standard URL-encoded
notation. It operates on a jQuery object representing a set of form
elements.

As far as I know, there’s no native jQuery function to unserialize but your post suggests you already got that and are only stuck in the URL-encoded strings:

decodeURIComponent(encodedURI)
Decodes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) component previously created by encodeURIComponent or
by a similar routine.