Problem in IE with data display 1

[jwdcfdeveloper]

I am having problems displaying data in the IE browser I am returning info from the database and it seems that if the field contains "" in it (e.g. "This is a test" ) the text within double quotes will not display. This data displays fine in Firefox, but not IE. Any ideas how I can display my data inside of text field in IE?

 

[Vragabond]

Why don't you show us a snippet of the offending code. That way we will be able to help you much easier than guessing what is wrong and what you meant.

 

[jwdcfdeveloper]

Sure. Here is the code:

<input type="text" name="title" value="#coldFusion.databaseColumn#">

The problem here is that the title (including text inside of " ") will display just fine (e.g. The title: "ABC 123") in Firefox. However, in IE All that will display is The title: and the "ABC 123" gets cut off. Any suggestions?

 

[Vragabond]

So, if I am not mistaken, the colfusion insert you're making is a string that looks like this: The Title: "ABC 123"

If that is the case, then IE would be pretty right in doing what it does, since your code then looks like this:

<input type="text" name="title" value=[b][blue]"The Title: "[/blue][/b]ABC 123"">

The bolded part shows what is actually considered as value. I don't know what FF does to avoid that but you should look into changing qoutes into their code entities (&quot.

 

[ChrisHunt]

Ask in the Cold Fusion forum. No doubt there's a function you can use to escape special characters.

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