Question

My hypertlink generated by JavaScript is as follows:

'<a href="#" onClick=passSearchTerm("' +aa + '");>View</a>' 

The parameter passes wells when the string is as follows:

var aa = 'TAGS(\\"ab\\")'; 

I confirmed it by alerting inside the function

function passSearchTerm(aa)
{
alert(aa);
}

However, this wont alert when the var is defined as follows:

var aa = ‘TAGS(\”a b\”)’; //space between “a” and “b”

Can anyone suggest me how to pass such string? Thanks in advance for your help.
Actually I am trying to pass likely following string:

TAGS(“a or b”)

Answer 1

While generating ur hyperlink by javascript use encodeURIComponent
ex.

"<a href=\"#\" onclick=\"passSearchTerm('" + encodeURIComponent(aa) + "')\">View</a>"

and while retriving use decodeURIComponent

function passSearchTerm(aa) { alert(decodeURIComponent(aa)); }