Question

I’m having some trouble removing slashes in Javascript.

I’ve got some HTML coming through via JSON and need to get rid of the escaping slashes.

Here’s what I have now, but it doesn’t seem to work – at all…

obj.embed_code = obj.embed_code.replace(/\\/g, '');

The HTML inside that object is an embed iframe from YouTube, but since it’s got the escaped quotes I just end up with an iframe that’s got a 404 page in it.

What would be the correct way to do this?

Here’s an example of what the output looks like…

<iframe width=\\\"420\\\" height=\\\"315\\\" src=\\\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MD61itbPNEY\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>

In addition, here’s the page where the JSON is being pulled from so you can see what it looks like raw…

http://bit.ly/UxuvfL

Answer 1

If the data is truly JSON then the correct way would be to use a JSON parser, as there’s more to JSON parsing than simply removing backslashes. Given something like

{"content":"<p>CleverStuff\u2122<\/p>"}

JSON.parse(theData).content would give you

<p>CleverStuff™</p>