Since someone recently asked me about this ...
I didn't figure out a solution, but I figured out a workaround
that was good enough for my purposes.
In the onclick event handler for the link I call
"this.childNodes.item(0).nodeValue" which gets the body
of the link - that is the text that is displayed to the user.
This works for me because the text I want to return is the
same as the text I want to display to the user in the link.
Note that the javascript must be in an
event handler (like onclick) and not in the href.
<% session.setAttribute("x","Dan's Test"); %>
<% session.setAttribute("y","The \"other\" test"); %>
<a href="#"
onclick="alert(this.childNodes.item(0).nodeValue)"><bean:write
name="x"/></a><BR>
<a href="#"
onclick="alert(this.childNodes.item(0).nodeValue)"><bean:write
name="y"/></a><BR>
Works in IE and Firefox/Mozilla (and I assume other browsers too).
- Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Lipofsky
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 5:22 PM
>
> No, that doesn't fix it. It needs to be encoded.
> It just needs to be encoded as "Dan\'s Test"
> or even as "Dan\'s" but not as "Dan's".
> The problem is that the brower converts '
> back to a single quote early on in the game,
> and then the single quote prematurely ends the string I
> am trying to pass to the Javascript method, which
> causes a Javascript exception.
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yee, Richard K,,DMDCWEST [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:39 PM
> >
> > Dan,
> > Try using the filter="false" attribute of the bean:write tag.
> > That will
> > disable the encoding of characters that are sensitive to HTML.
> >
> >
> > -Richard
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Lipofsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:18 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: bean:write and apostrophes
> >
> >
> > If I use <bean:write ... filter=true>
> > to write out the value "Dan's Test" I get "Dan's".
> > But this is giving me problems with Javascript.
> >
> > THIS FAILS:
> > <a href="javascript:alert('Dan's Test')">Dan's Test</a>
> >
> > BUT THIS WORKS:
> > <a href="javascript:alert('Dan\'s Test')">Dan's Test</a>
> >
> > But I don't know how to get the second form.
> > I can reverse the single quotes and double quotes
> > in javascript - then it works for the test case above
> > but fails for strings with double quotes.
> >
> > Has anyone solved this problem?
> > I am using IE 6.0 as my browser as struts 1.1.
> > Here is the full test cases:
> >
> > <% session.setAttribute("x","Dan's Test"); %>
> > <% session.setAttribute("y","The \"other\" test"); %>
> > <a href="javascript:alert('<bean:write name="x"/>')">x1</a><BR> <a
> > href="javascript:alert('<bean:write name="y"/>')">y1</a><BR> <a
> > href='javascript:alert("<bean:write name="x"/>")'>x2</a><BR> <a
> > href='javascript:alert("<bean:write name="y"/>")'>y2</a><BR>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
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