Question

I am writing a small script to be ran in a dialog when it opens. In the code I have a string type variable with html code, such as string script = <a onclick=runthis('This will not work with white spaces')><a/>. That will not work but if i take out all the white spaces it will work fine. Question is is there a way to pass in a parameter with spaces or any other way to do this? thanks for any examples or suggestions.

Small example of the error, This is a string in c#.

 "<div id=&quot;DialogEditPhoto&quot;  style=&quot;display: inline-block; position: relative; cursor: pointer&quot; " +
                    "onclick=EditPhoto(&quot;Wlcometo thesouth&quot;,&apos;dsaasd&apos;,&apos;" + pic.ID + "&apos;);>" 

Answer 1

Some of the character encoding you’re doing is a little unnecessary. You need quotes around your JS function, which is why the whitespace is causing it not to work.

string div = "<div id=\"DialogEditPhoto\"" + 
    " style=\"display: inline-block; position: relative; cursor: pointer\"" + 
    " onclick=\"EditPhoto('Wlcometo thesouth','dsaasd','" + pic.ID + "');\">" + 
    "</div>"

And before you sent it to the client, let .NET do the character encoding for you:

string encoded = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(div);

Also, you didn’t close your opening <div> tag; I’m not sure if you were intending to, but I added it anyway.