HTML characters in the JS code from ASP and MS SQL

Poster: Mindjogger
Dated: Friday February 16 2007 - 15:33:05 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to get the dhtlm menue to get running on our server and have some trouble with the DB generated Javascript code.

I have downloaded:
Milonic DHTML Menu - JavaScript Website Navigation System.
Version 5.770 - Built: Thursday February 1 2007 - 11:28

In our DB we have Japanes characters which are HTML-encoded and looking like:
製品の特徴と

USing this inside of the JS code I am agry to run into trouble because of the ; appearing int the strings for the name/label:
aI("fontsize=18px;fontstyle=italic;showmenu=My Milonic;text=会社概要");
or
aI("text=consulting &  services;url=../text.asp?PageId=678;tooltip=here you get it;");


Does anyone have a expirience with something like this?
Any recommendation if it is needed to mask the html or what to do?
Thank you

Bernhard

Poster: Andy
Dated: Thursday March 1 2007 - 10:37:52 GMT

Hi,

Back Quotes may be your friend in this instance.

If you need to include multiple ; and = characters, this tend to break the structure of aI strings.

To combat this enclose anything that will break the structure inside back quotes, like this:

aI("text`I can include ;;;and === and style="font-color:red;background:blue;" because of back quotes`;url=link.html;");

HTH,
Andy