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Hi Peter, thank you for your very useful plugin.
I’m hoping you can help with an issue I am having with dynamic links and column value substitution.
My issue is that one of the columns in the table contains text. I wish to pass that text as a variable to a javascript function which is called onclick.
this works fine for plain text but fails if the text contains a single quote (‘). There are other special characters which may also cause failure of the the parameter to be passed to javascript.
I have tried a number of workarounds but I have failed to find something that works.
Note that I have removed the “a” tag elements because they get interpreted as html in the post.
Here my dynamic hyperlink
onclick=”doOnlineTitleEdit($$ID$$,’$$online_title$$’)” class=”dashicons dashicons-edit”
Here is the value of the online_title in the database for the row: Don’t
Here the element which is generated by the plugin:
onclick=”doOnlineTitleEdit(27,’Don’t’)” class=”dashicons dashicons-edit”
The quote cause a problem in parsing the javascript.
I then tried to change the dynamic hyperlink to wrap the variable in double quotes instead of single quotes and set the onclick value using single quotes.
t looks like this:
onclick=’doOnlineTitleEdit($$ID$$,”$$online_title$$”)’ class=”dashicons dashicons-edit”
The element generated by the plugin is this:
onclick=”‘doOnlineTitleEdit(27,”Don’t”)’” class=”dashicons dashicons-edit”
It appears that the plugin has inserted double quotes and made some html character substitutions. In any case this link obviously will not work.
Lastly I have tried to change what is stored in the database to text which is html encoded:
For this dynamic hyperlink:
onclick=”doOnlineTitleEdit($$ID$$,’$$online_title$$’)” class=”dashicons dashicons-edit”
I have set the value of the online_title in the database for the row replacing the quote with the HTML encoding of Ampersand #39;
The element generated by the plugin is this:
onclick=”doOnlineTitleEdit(27,’Don’t’)” class=”dashicons dashicons-edit”
This also doesn’t work because the plugin is decoding the value stored in the database and replacing it with a single quote.
Is there a way to make this work? Is there a way to suppress the substitution of HBML encoding/decoding in the column value substitution?
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