trouble with the & in firefox/javascript

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Firefox is giving me errors whenever I use the &, even in a string. Its starting to make me very frustrated. I cannot use the & code because I actually NEED the & used for querystring.

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XML Parsing Error: not well-formed

Location: http://wan1.platertopia.com:8080/

Line Number 188, Column 34:    var action="DATETIME&TEMPERATURE&HUMIDITY&SAMPLESTATE";

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Jul 20 '07 #1

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Plater

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Ok, I'm calling shenanigans on firefox.
shenanigans
shenanigans
shenanigans

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if ((condition1)&(condition2))

{

}

Is valid code and should not be harping at me to use & instead as that does not work

Jul 20 '07 #2

iam_clint

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have you tried a work around something silly like

var c = "DATETIMEôTEMPERATUREôHUMIDITYôSAMPLESTATE";
action=c.replace("ô", "&");

Jul 20 '07 #3

Plater

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have you tried a work around something silly like

var c = "DATETIMEôTEMPERATUREôHUMIDITYôSAMPLESTATE";
action=c.replace("ô", "&");

Yeah, then it complains about there being an & in the .replace function.

Is javascript not allowed in xhtml transitional, is that what it is?

Jul 20 '07 #4

pbmods

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If you put <![CDATA[ tags around your Javascript, that should fix it:

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<script type="text/javascript">

    // <![CDATA[

    .

    .

    .

    // ]]>

</script>

Jul 21 '07 #5

kovik

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What about using &? That's perfectly valid for URLs.

Jul 21 '07 #6

drhowarddrfine

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If you are using that in a URL then ampersand isn't allowed so Firefox is right in complaining. & should work, and it does but you can try %26 which is the encoded version.

Jul 22 '07 #7

Plater

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Yeah I finally had a bit more of clairty and google'd it. I had not included that stuff. I was old school with the <!-- stuff, then took it out and it's good now.

If you put <![CDATA[ tags around your Javascript, that should fix it:

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<script type="text/javascript">

    // <![CDATA[

    .

    .

    .

    // ]]>

</script>

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