replacing leading white space

[meenu24]

Hi,

I am using the following code to replace the blank spaces.
This is value selectedText receives.
selectedText =     somevalue;
I want "somevalue"
With the following code I still receive the same old value.
var space = /^\s+/;
selectedText = selectedText.replace(space,"");
I am using IEBrowser.
What am I missing

Thanks

 

[adam0101]

This works in IE:

<script>

String.prototype.htmlUnencode = function(){
  var div = document.createElement("div");
  div.innerHTML = this;
  return div.innerText;
}

String.prototype.trim = function(){ return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,''); }

var test = "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;somevalue";
alert(test.htmlUnencode().trim());

</script>

Adam

http://adameslinger.blogspot.com/

 

[meenu24]

Thanks Adam

   selectedText[i] = selectedText[i].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,'');
theSelTo.options[theSelTo.options.length]=new Option(selectedText[i],selectedValues[i],true,true);

I used above code, still I get the same value with blank spaces in the option field.

Where am I going wrong.

Thanks
Meena

 

[adam0101]

Are you getting spaces or are you getting a bunch of   entities like you posted? Have you tried the code I posted that converts the HTML encoded text (such as &nbsp into regular text?

Adam

http://adameslinger.blogspot.com/

 

[meenu24]

Thanks Adam, I forgot to use the encoder now it works like magic!

thanks again.