pushing text from popup to opener

[ks1392]

Hi, I'm relatively new to JS. I have a function that pops up a window, then from the popup a user will select some text. The text will then be placed in a <textarea> tag in the opener as the popup closes. The (very simple) function is:

function put_back(form,field,text) {
opener.document.forms[form].elements[field].value = text;
self.close();
}

The function is called via an anchor tag. It works great until the text I'm sending back to the opener has any single quotes in it. I imagine I have to escape these characters. The text is generated on the fly by database queries, so I suppose I need a function to do this.

Am I going in the right direction? If so, does anyone know of a function that will parse a a string and escape the appropriate characters? If not, what should I be doing?

Thanks in advance,
Kerr

 

[adam0101]

How are you writing the links from the database? Is it with ASP? If so, you could use the REPLACE function.

<a href="javascript:put_back('formName','fieldName','<%=Replace(rs.Fields("dbField")&"","'","\'")%>')">

The &"" in the replace function is to keep it from erroring if the field is null.

Adam
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[ks1392]

I'm using ColdFusion on the server side. I hadn't thought to do this using CF. I will work it from that angle with CF's regex functions.

I did try using the JS 'escape' function and while it hex encoded all the spaces, etc. it still failed when I handed it a single quote.

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