Entering html special characters into chart titles fails

[Jeffrey Greenberg]

Hi,
I'm working on Google line charts in the coding playground ( https://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?type=visualization#line_chart ).
I'm trying to place special html characters into the chart title like an ampersand using the html encoding: & Instead of displaying an ampersand ( & ), instead it displays the literal string: & .
This seems wrong, and certainly isn't what I want.  In fact, I want to make use of the HTML arrow characters: ↑ and ↓  but these display literally as well rather than displaying as up and down arrows respectively.

This is a bug, right?

[asgallant]

Nope, not a bug.  You need to enter the unicode for the character in javascript.  As an example, use "\u2192" for the right arrow.

[Jeffrey Greenberg]

Thanks!
On a related note, is it possible to style characters within title strings.... like insert a span with class so that a string of characters can be styled with css?

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[asgallant]

No, sorry, the titles aren't HTML compatible.  You can style the title to an extent by using the titleTextStyle option (which has "fontName", "fontSize", and "color" sub options).

On Monday, March 11, 2013 6:45:36 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote:

Thanks!
On a related note, is it possible to style characters within title strings.... like insert a span with class so that a string of characters can be styled with css?

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:22 PM, asgallant <drew_g...@abtassoc.com> wrote:

Nope, not a bug.  You need to enter the unicode for the character in javascript.  As an example, use "\u2192" for the right arrow.

On Monday, March 11, 2013 6:13:45 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Greenberg wrote:

Hi,
I'm working on Google line charts in the coding playground ( https://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?type=visualization#line_chart ).
I'm trying to place special html characters into the chart title like an ampersand using the html encoding: &amp; Instead of displaying an ampersand ( & ), instead it displays the literal string: &amp; .
This seems wrong, and certainly isn't what I want.  In fact, I want to make use of the HTML arrow characters: &uarr; and &darr;  but these display literally as well rather than displaying as up and down arrows respectively.

This is a bug, right?

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