Question

I have a String like follows which is coming from server side

  String productIDs = "[{"productID":"226167","productName":"It is my life (Bingo)"},{"productID":"3193","productName":"It is your name (jingo)"},{"productID":"273838","productName":"It's the same milk/Butter i drink/ate yesterday"}]"

Now I am saving it in a hidden input field this string

<input type="hidden" class="hiddenInput" value="<%=productIDs %>"  />

But when i checked it through firebug it is saved very wierdly as follows

<input type="hidden" class="hiddenInput" yesterday"}]"="" is ="" my ="" Butter ="" life ="" (Bingo)"},{"productid":"273838","productname":"It ="" crmo="" (paar)"},{"productid":"3193","productname":"It ="" milk="" same ="" flip-off="" productid":"226167","productname":"It ="" value="[{" />

Anybody has got any idea why this is happening?

Answer 1

Problem is with the way you’re saving the string, you have to switch the type of quotes you use otherwise js doesn’t know where the string ends and starts.

In your question it would look like this:

String productIDs = "[{'productID':'226167','productName':'It is my life (Bingo)'},{'productID':'3193','productName':'It is your name (jingo)'},{'productID':'273838','productName':'It's the same milk/Butter i drink/ate yesterday'}]"

You can also use \" instead of ' but that, to me, is alot more confusing.

Edit

You can do this using the following code:

strUWantToChange.replace('"',"'");