JQuery html () and & amp;

Question

I am doing a search on a list of people. And I want him to show the results "on the fly", and so it is. But there is one link that I need, and it should look like this:

chatid=18&userid=45&create=new 

but after the results are displayed through this:

 $.get('/ajax.php', {sec: 'search_users', ajax: 1, search_for: $(this).val()}, function(data) { $(".rBoxContentStaff").html(data); }); 

I get this result:

 chatid=18&userid=45&create=new 

And the link does not work. This is similar to html () as well as append ().

I did not find a solution for this, so I had to change the launch link.

Answer 1

You said you were trying to set the correct link path?
If yes, try this

 $(".rBoxContentStaff").attr("href", data); 

the .html() changes to both html and ( & ), but using .attr("href") sets the link path, and it also works with & s

Answer 2

Instead of this:

 $(".rBoxContentStaff").html(data); }); 

Try the following:

 $(".rBoxContentStaff").append(data); }); 

text () escapes html characters ... I can't find anything about html () escaping characters (and, indeed, its documentation seems to point to something else.
However, after testing with a warning in jmein suggestion, it encodes special characters. Append () does not do this.

Answer 3

html special characters when ajax request are not interpreted by the browser .. why the links came out that way. One thing you can do is replace sstring in javascript:

 data = str.replace(/&/, "&"); 

Answer 4

You should try using the $ .ajax () function instead of $ .get ().

With $ .ajax (), you can specify your data type yourself (and use other parameters).

Try something like this:

 $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "/ajax.php", data: "sec=search_users&ajax=1&search_for="+$(this).val(), cache: false, dataType: "html", success: function(html){ $(".rBoxContentStaff").html(html); } }); 

Answer 5

And also a way to convert receiving only text ( <a /> is only an assistant):

 $('<a /'>).html(data).text() 

This will move & in & , as well as all other special characters, such as &imp; etc.