The intention of the regex is to capture substrings wrapped between twin expressions in parentheses, kinda like html tags. For example: And here’s my code Can anyone tell me why this doesn’t capture the entire thing? Answer The characters () are special in a regexp and must be escaped with a if y…
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Saving multiple css values to one javascript variable using strings
I’m quite new to JavaScript so do bear with me. I’ve read a few threads here How can I set multiple CSS styles in JavaScript? Set CSS Property by string with JavaScript The first link excited me, because it seems that you can save multiple css rules and values as a string which can then replace ex…
Escaping ” or ‘ multiple times
So I often have to generate content for webpages through servlets or jsps. In that process I sometimes run into a problem when trying to escape multiple layers of ” or ‘ when working with strings. For example I’m creating an element with a popup here: I cannot use the alternative ‘ bec…
Why is “” invalid in JavaScript?
While writing “” in Chrome console I get the following error: In Firefox it gives following error: while writting “\” gives: “\” in both browsers What is the proper way to write “” in JavaScript? Answer Do not let the rendering of a string in the console, which …
Axios adds extra trailing slash in body values
I am developing an application with React Native, which communicates with an IoT chip (with very little ram memory), because of that all the logic must be developed on the client side. One of the specifications of this chip is all the characters “,” must to be escaped with just one trilling slash.…
Unescaped Characters when using languages other than English in Node JS?
I am using a Google cloud function with the Google Places API. It works fine in English, but I get this error when inputting Hebrew or Russian: When I try my request directly in a web browser it works fine: But when I try the exact same string in NodeJS I get the error above, here is my code (I
Escaping quotes in Javascript variable from Classic ASP
How can I escape quotes using a Classic ASP variable in javascript/jQuery? The ASP variable is taken from a DB. I’m using: But obviously that appears as when the page loads, which breaks the function with unexpected identifier. edit: I’m using using jQuery not “how can I achieve this using j…
How to write a value that contains a comma to a csv file?
I have a javascript program to write values to a csv file. I have a value that includes comma within. How to do this? I am newbie to javascript. can you please help me? I tried double quotes record.assets is the field that will have comma within. Answer Close them in quotes and escape double quotes? http://en…
Single quotes in string with jQuery ajax
I have run into a problem where the user enters data and if there are single quotes at all, the script errors out. What’s the best way to handle single quotes that users enter so it doesn’t interfere with the jquery/javascript? UPDATE: I’m sending it through ajax to a database. here is the d…
Escaping double quotes in JavaScript onClick event handler
The simple code block below can be served up in a static HTML page but results in a JavaScript error. How should you escape the embedded double quote in the onClick handler (i.e. “xyz)? Note that the HTML is generated dynamically by pulling data from a database, the data of which is snippets of other HT…