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Setting an element value using HTML entities

I'm having an issue trying to set an input field's value when using HTML entities in that they are coming out literally as " rather than ".
Here is the code I am using:
document.getElementById('inputSurname').setAttribute('value', 'test"""');
in which the output is test""" though I want the output to be test""".
It doesn't look like a double-encoding issue since in the source code I am seeing it the same way I have set it here.
I know I could decode the value from its HTML entity format though this is something I want to avoid if possible for security.
Any help would be much appreciated :)

Try this:
document.getElementById('inputSurname').value = 'test"""';
Or if you want to keep &quot:
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById('myText').value = replaceQuot('test&quot&quot&quot');
}
function replaceQuot(string){
return string.replace('&quot', '""');
}

Or you can use escape characters.
document.getElementById("inputSurname").setAttribute("value", "test\"\"\"\"");

Well you could just write the new value as 'test"""'.
For other characters however, I'm going to refer you to this answer: HTML Entity Decode

apple .replace() Html element generate by handlebar js

I am wondering if how am i able to change the element data by .replace() if i use handlebar js to generate html elements.
For instance i have this role of p tag which display a row of data by handlebar js:
<p id="pre-region">{{region}}</p>
and the result of it is
1,44
and i 'd like to change it to
1+44
If you haven't had any experience of handlebar js then consider the tag be
<p id="pre-region">1,44</p>
how should i change from 1,44 to 1 +44?
UPDATE 1
Here should be an extersion for my question. I am passing the HTML element inside pre-region into an href in order to update my website by Ajax.
After i have converted all the comma in to "+" the API retrieve special character "&B2" which equal to the symbol "+" and the API goes error.
MYDOMAIN/path/getRegion?token&profileId=111&dataType=all&region=1%2B4
This is how may API looks like at the moment
MYDOMAIN/path/getRegion?token&profileId=111&dataType=all&region=1+4
should be the solution

I haven't had any experience of handlebars.js but from my point of view, you can just put the code just before the </body>:
<script>
var node = document.getElementById('pre-region');
node.innerHTML = node.innerHTML.replace(',', '+');
</script>
I'll check out the handlebars js in case it does not work.
Update:
As you mentioned in the comment, if you need to use it in the HTTP request/URL, you may handle the string using decodeURIComponent(yourstring):
decodeURIComponent('1%2B44'); // you get '1+44'
Read more about decodeURIComponent() method from this. In URL, it should be encoded as region=1%2B44 in your case; while it should be decoded if you want to use it in your JavaScript code or display in the web page.
Update 1
You should encode your string when it's used as a part of parameter of HTTP request. Therefore, it looks good if the URL is:
MYDOMAIN/path/getRegion?token&profileId=111&dataType=all&region=1%2B4
What you need to do is decode the string on your server side. I assume that you are in control of the server side. If you are using Node.js, you can just use decodeURIComponent() method to decode the parameter. If you're using Python or PHP as your server language, it should be something like decodeURIComponent() in that language.
Update 2
The solution above only replace the first occasion of comma to +. To solve that, simply use:
<script>
var node = document.getElementById('pre-region');
node.innerHTML = node.innerHTML.replace(/,/g, '+');
// Regular Expression is used here, 'g' for global search.
</script>
PHP has a replaceAll() method, so we can add that method to String.prototype like below if you want:
<script>
String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replacement) {
var target = this;
return target.split(search).join(replacement);
}
// Another method to replace all occasions using `split` and `join`.
</script>

Alright, so this is my first answer ever on stack overflow so I'm alien to this whole thing but here we go:
You could try this code in another js file that runs after handlebars:
var pre = $('#pre-region'); // defines a variabe for the element (same as
// document.getElementById('pre-region'))
var retrievedRegion = pre.innerHTML;
var splitten = retrievedRegion.split(',');
var concatenated = parseInt(split[0]) + parseInt(split[1])
retrievedRegion.innerHTML = "'" + concatenated) + "'";
or using replace():
retrievedRegion.replace(',','+')

javascript validation with regular expression not working

In my asp.net web application. I need to validate a textbox entry to avoid these special characters \/:*>"<>|.I planned to replace the character with empty string, and for that wrote a javascript function and addded the attribute to call the function from server side as below
txtProjectName.Attributes.Add("onkeyup", "ValiateSpecialCharacter()");
As of this every thing is fine and the function is called.while enter any character. The function is
function ValiateSpecialCharacter(){
var txt=document.getElementById("<%=txtProjectName.ClientID%>").value;
txt.replace(/[\\\/:*>"<>|]/g, '');
alert(txt);
document.getElementById("<%=txtProjectName.ClientID%>").value=txt;
}
I use a regular expression in the function to do this. But the test is not getting replaced as planned. Is there any mistake in this code.Also note that the alert is working.

Try to get the result in txt ie, get the value of replaced text inside your variable.
txt = txt.replace(/[\\\/:*>"<>|]/g, '');

In your query you getting previous value.Assign properly like this txt = txt.replace(/[\\\/:*>"<>|]/g, '');.It show the latest result in alert box.
function ValiateSpecialCharacter(){
var txt=document.getElementById("<%=txtProjectName.ClientID%>").value;
txt = txt.replace(/[\\\/:*>"<>|]/g, '');
alert(txt);
document.getElementById("<%=txtProjectName.ClientID%>").value=txt;
}

This is not what you asked, but seems like a strange way to go about your needs. Unless, I misunderstood the question. Since you are running ASP.NET on the server, why use JavaScript for server validation?
It usually does make sense to validate input on the client. For that, you need to hook an event like form submit to call the javascript function.
If you want to validate on the server, use something like, inside a function handling form submit:
Regex re = new Regex("^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]{1,61}[a-zA-Z0-9](?:\\.[a-zA-Z]{1,})+$");
if (!re.IsMatch (domain.Text)) {
warningLabel.Text = "Domain format is invalid!";
formError = true;
}
Obviously, you don't validate the domain so change the regex etc. No JavaScript is needed for server-side validation.

saving value from form doesn't work

So, storing a Java String into a form hidden input value. I call said value via javascript and attempt to store it into a var. Strangely, I can display the value via alert but javascript crashes when I try to save it into a var.
The first line is from the initializing jsp file. It does some stuff that gets the string. The string is a list of ints that I plan on splitting in javascript for some stuff.
"<form id = \"listArrForm\"> <input id = \"listArr\" value = "+ output +" type = \"hidden\"></form>"
var listArr = document.getElementById("listArr").value; //Does work
alert(document.getElementById("listArr").value); //Does work
So yea, I'm guessing it has to do with the the type of value being retrieved?

Well, both should work as you can see in this jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/2eWja/
What are you storing in the value that makes the script not work? Are you sure you're not putting quotes in?

what browser are you using? There could be problem for some
Btw using getElementById is known to be wrong. ;)

How to convert text file to object

I have a .html file and want to show only 1 object value. The html file doesnt have any tag because its reading data database and only have simple format.
SPractice=0&SLive=0&OnlineU=349
Is there any way to read only value of OnlineU? Is there any way to get this value using javascript or classic asp?

That's not HTML. Nor is it XML or JSON, so you have to use a customer parser on the server or the client.
From parsing a similar format in JavaScript, I know you can it with regex. However, the corner cases are tricky if the values can have special characters e.g. an escaped equal sign). Look at split, and be sure to use a cross-browser split method like this.

Is that what you need?
var s='SPractice=0&SLive=0&OnlineU=349';
eval (s.replace(/&/g,';'));
alert(OnlineU);

Check out the jQuery BBQ plugin:
http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-bbq/docs/files/jquery-ba-bbq-js.html#jQuery.deparam
you can use it like this:
var string = "SPractice=0&SLive=0&OnlineU=349";
$(function() {
alert($.deparam(string, true)['OnlineU']); //alerts 349
});
It covers pretty much every corner case.
EDIT: Since you are already using jQuery try this.
$.get('test.html', function(data) {
alert('Raw data: ' + data); //Should alert the raw data
var onlineu = $.deparam(string, true)['OnlineU'];
alert('OnlineU: ' + onlineu); //Should alert 349 or something like that.
}, dataType: 'text');