Question

I am parsing an xml file with jquery and ajax. I noticed that it doesn’t output the proceeding characters after a ‘:’ in the text node. I tried using &59; and escaping it (\:) but it doesn’t my solve problem.

e.g.

<some>
      <text>dssadsa dasdasd : dsadasdaasdsadas</text>
</some>

$(this).children(‘text’).text() will just display dssadsa dasdasd :

I know this is trivial but I can’t really solve it. Thanks

edit…
hahaha my bad. I am injecting it to the value attribute of tag. yeah it shows in alert completely. but how to do it in a input textbox?

Answer 1

Try \\: (i.e. double back slash to escape colon)

Edit: (after viewing the complete problem)

Put double quotes in value attribute.

http://jsbin.com/oxafef/edit#javascript,html