Ampersands?

[jgill]

Hi,

I'm writing a web page that inserts specific emoji into a text box with Javascript.

<a href="javascript:doEmoji('&#x1F536')">&#x1F536</a> &nbsp;

This works perfectly as expected but BBEdit is insisting that I need to change the ampersands to &amp; and if I format the page, it changes all my ampersands to &amp; and breaks the Javascript.

How can I write this to make the syntax checker happy?

Tia.

Joe

[Kerri Hicks]

Hi Joe,

I copied your code into a new BBEdit HTML document. When I added a semicolon to the end of that entity (as is customary for entities), the syntax checker found no errors, and the emoji rendered as expected.

Hope this helps.

--Kerri

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[jgill]

Slaps head!

Thank you Kerri, I should have spotted that.

On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 3:25:03 PM UTC, Kerri Hicks wrote:

Hi Joe,

I copied your code into a new BBEdit HTML document. When I added a semicolon to the end of that entity (as is customary for entities), the syntax checker found no errors, and the emoji rendered as expected.

Hope this helps.

--Kerri

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:13 AM jgill <joegille...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm writing a web page that inserts specific emoji into a text box with Javascript.

<a href="javascript:doEmoji('&#x1F536')">&#x1F536</a> &nbsp;

This works perfectly as expected but BBEdit is insisting that I need to change the ampersands to &amp; and if I format the page, it changes all my ampersands to &amp; and breaks the Javascript.

How can I write this to make the syntax checker happy?

Tia.

Joe

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[Sam Hathaway]

I agree with Kerri that you need semicolons at the ends of your entities.

But to avoid multi-level escaping confusion altogether, use JavaScript string literal unicode escapes in your JavaScript code, like so:

<a href="javascript:doEmoji('\u{1F536}')">&#x1F536;</a> &nbsp;

Hope this helps.
-sam

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[jgill]

Great suggestion, Sam. Thanks.

On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 3:30:04 PM UTC, Sam Hathaway wrote:

I agree with Kerri that you need semicolons at the ends of your entities.

But to avoid multi-level escaping confusion altogether, use JavaScript string literal unicode escapes in your JavaScript code, like so:

<a href="javascript:doEmoji('\u{1F536}')">&#x1F536;</a> &nbsp;

Hope this helps.
-sam

On 17 Feb 2020, at 10:13, jgill wrote:

Hi,

I'm writing a web page that inserts specific emoji into a text box with Javascript.

<a href="javascript:doEmoji('&#x1F536')">&#x1F536</a> &nbsp;

This works perfectly as expected but BBEdit is insisting that I need to change the ampersands to &amp; and if I format the page, it changes all my ampersands to &amp; and breaks the Javascript.

How can I write this to make the syntax checker happy?

Tia.

Joe

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