Javs Script Error

[portalguy123]

Hello Experts,

Can you please let me know what you think is wrong is the following java script, it seems the browser sees a syntax error at the following line of code.

Thanks in advance..

<a id="portlet_1_1calendarAnchor9" href="/AnnouncementsNew/Announcement/#" onclick="cal1.select(document[getNetuiTagName("imform",this)][getNetuiTagName("completionDate9",this)],getNetuiTagName("calendarAnchor9",this),'MM/dd/yyyy');return false;">Select Completion Date</a>

 

[trollacious]

You have double quotes in your onclick that aren't escaped:

<a id="portlet_1_1calendarAnchor9" href="/AnnouncementsNew/Announcement/#" onclick="cal1.select(document[getNetuiTagName(\"imform\",this)][getNetuiTagName(\"completionDate9\",this)],getNetuiTagName(\"calendarAnchor9\",this),'MM/dd/yyyy');return false;">Select Completion Date</a>

Lee

 

[portalguy123]

Thanks Lee!

You came to my rescue again but actually that was the generated HTML , in the sense that was what was generated from a JSP and I posted the view source , do you still think I need to escape the double quotes I already did that in the JSP and they were generated as such..Please let me know..

 

[trollacious]

Why would "generated" HTML have to follow different rules than hand-written HTML? You need to write your JSP so it includes the escape characters when it writes the link out.

Lee

 

[portalguy123]

Thanks Lee,

Now I generated it as follows , but I still get an invalid character error.

-Bob.

            <a id="portlet_1_1calendarAnchor0" href="/AnnouncementsNew/Announcement/#" onclick="cal1.select(document[getNetuiTagName(\"imform\",this)][getNetuiTagName(\"completionDate0\",this)],getNetuiTagName(\"calendarAnchor0\",this),'MM/dd/yyyy');return false;">Select Completion Date</a>

 

[trollacious]

Check it out in Firefox and use the Javascript console to see where the error is.

Lee

 

[portalguy123]

Lee,

Thanks for the valuable suggestion I did that I see that the error is at the first back ward slash for the double quote , dont know why...Here's the message from the js console..

Error: illegal character
Source File: [URL unfurl="true"]http://localhost:7788/AnnouncementsNew/Announcements.portal;jsessionid=FZLb0pyCR1ZwlK4p1tdynQs7JpnQ3ycQCwD8n6j6F12hhftwWNWh!76071094?_nfpb=true&portlet_1_1_actionOverride=%2FAnnouncement%2FinsertMessageLink&_windowLabel=portlet_1_1&_pageLabel=Announcements_page_2[/URL]
Line: 1, Column: 37
Source Code:
cal1.select(document[getNetuiTagName(\

 

[cLFlaVA]

try using single quotes instead of the escaped double-quote.



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[portalguy123]

Single quotes works like a charm thanks Lee and cLFlaVA, becuase of you guys I can leave early today..

 

[cLFlaVA]

great. and i get to stay. how does THAT work?



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[portalguy123]

better luck next time