You can try to change "Surabaya & Surrounding Areas" in your database to "Surabaya & Surrounding Areas"
Best Regards, Boby Ertanto On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:04 PM, dbkbali <[email protected]> wrote: > I am having an annoying problem displaying the labels of a select box > correctly where there is an ampersand contained within the label > string. > > On a form being rendered with the form_for helper the > collection_select reads data from a Mysql 5.075 database the text > stored in the database is "Surabaya & Surrounding Areas" when rendered > and displayed in firefox 3.6 or safari is is displaying as "Surabaya > %amp; Surrounding Areas". > > The code used to render the select is as follows: > > <%= f.collection_select :parent_id, Destination.roots, :id, :name, > {:include_blank => true} %> > > I have tried adding a h(:name) and also storing && in the database but > it still will not display the ampersand correctly. Have searched on > google for what I thought would be a simple solution but cant find > anything that solves this. > > If anyone has a solution it will be much appreciated. > > many thanks, > > David > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
