html encode value</a></h1> </div> <div class="grid fw-wrap pb8 mb16 bb bc-black-075"> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8" title="2016-01-12 19:07:53Z"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Asked</span> <time itemprop="dateCreated" datetime="2012-08-10T12:13:45.673" class="fromnow">Aug 10 '12 at 12:13</time> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Active</span> <time class="fromnow" title="2012-08-10T12:54:04.563" datetime="2012-08-10T12:54:04.563">Aug 10 '12 at 12:54</a> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mb8" title="Viewed 15,524 times"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Viewed</span> 1.6k times </div> </div> <div id="mainbar" role="main" aria-label="questions and answers"> <div id="question" class="question" data-questionid="11901455" data-ownerid="1477816" data-score="2"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="11901455"> 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// this works cross browser </code></pre> <p>But if the value was <code>"sdfgsdgdsgsdg <br/>"</code> how do I HTML encode it?</p> <p>It breaks when I <code>stringify()</code> it</p> <pre><code>var e = { "d" : $('textarea').val()}; var s = JSON.stringify(e); //it breaks here </code></pre></div> <div class="mt24 mb12"> <div class="post-taglist grid gs4 gsy fd-column"> <div class="grid ps-relative"> <a href="../../questions/tagged/javascript" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'javascript'" rel="tag">javascript</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/jquery" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'jquery'" rel="tag">jquery</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="user-info "> <div class="user-action-time">edited <span title="2012-08-10T12:40:32.793" class="relativetime">Aug 10 '12 at 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<div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">`var s = {"a":"sdfgsdgdsgsdg <br/>"};` does not error (nor is it JSON, it is JavaScript)</span> – <a href="../../users/19068/quentin" title="914,110 reputation" class="comment-user ">Quentin</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/11901455/html-encode-textarea-value#comment15841778_11901455"><span title="2012-08-10T12:15:26.890 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Aug 10 '12 at 12:15</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-15841843" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="15841843" data-comment-owner-id="205585" data-comment-score="1"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">1</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment15841843_11901455"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">you may find this useful http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1219860/javascript-jquery-html-encoding</span> – <a href="../../users/205585/senthil-kumar" title="9,695 reputation" class="comment-user ">Senthil Kumar</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/11901455/html-encode-textarea-value#comment15841843_11901455"><span title="2012-08-10T12:18:01.380 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Aug 10 '12 at 12:18</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-15842178" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="15842178" data-comment-owner-id="19068" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment15842178_11901455"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">You HTML encode strings to make them HTML friendly, not JSON friendly.</span> – <a href="../../users/19068/quentin" title="914,110 reputation" class="comment-user ">Quentin</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/11901455/html-encode-textarea-value#comment15842178_11901455"><span title="2012-08-10T12:30:09.283 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Aug 10 '12 at 12:30</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-15844427" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="15844427" data-comment-owner-id="1385672" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment15844427_11901455"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">What is your expected output?</span> – <a href="../../users/1385672/wirey00" title="33,517 reputation" class="comment-user ">wirey00</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/11901455/html-encode-textarea-value#comment15844427_11901455"><span title="2012-08-10T13:43:40.433 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Aug 10 '12 at 13:43</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="answers"> <a name="tab-top"></a> <div id="answers-header"> <div class="answers-subheader grid ai-center mb8"> <div class="grid--cell fl1"> <h2 class="mb0" data-answercount="9">2 Answers<span style="display:none;" itemprop="answerCount">2</span></h2> </div> </div> </div> <a name="11902092"></a> <div id="answer-11902092" class="answer accepted-answer" data-answerid="11902092" data-ownerid="1156650" data-score="2" itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="11902092"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="2">2</div> <div class="js-accepted-answer-indicator grid--cell fc-green-500 py6 mtn8"><div class="ta-center"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="svg-icon iconCheckmarkLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="m6 14 8 8L30 6v8L14 30l-8-8v-8z"></path></svg></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>Try the following.<br/></p> <pre><code>var string = $('textarea').val(); var encoded = $('<div/>').text(string).html(); </code></pre> <p><a class="external-link" href="http://jsfiddle.net/ricardolohmann/qhsUL/" rel="nofollow">demo</a></p></div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="answered Aug 10 '12 at 12:54">answered Aug 10 '12 at 12:54</time> <a href="../../users/1156650/ricardo-alvaro-lohmann" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/1156650.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Ricardo Alvaro Lohmann" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/1156650/ricardo-alvaro-lohmann" class="s-user-card--link">Ricardo Alvaro Lohmann</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">26,031</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blinggold" title="7 gold badges">7</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingsilver" title="82 silver badges">82</li> <li 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href="../../users/1477816/hello-world" title="9,277 reputation" class="comment-user owner">Hello-World</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/11901455/html-encode-textarea-value#comment15851041_11902092"><span title="2012-08-10T17:42:34.033 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Aug 10 '12 at 17:42</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-15851373" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="15851373" data-comment-owner-id="1156650" data-comment-score="1"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">1</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment15851373_11902092"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@Hello-World We've to use some element to set it's text to escape the `string`. This case the element's the `div`.</span> – <a href="../../users/1156650/ricardo-alvaro-lohmann" title="26,031 reputation" class="comment-user ">Ricardo Alvaro Lohmann</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/11901455/html-encode-textarea-value#comment15851373_11902092"><span title="2012-08-10T17:57:33.840 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Aug 10 '12 at 17:57</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-15852240" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="15852240" data-comment-owner-id="1477816" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment15852240_11902092"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">so one fore question what the difference between your solution and escape() ? thanks.</span> – <a href="../../users/1477816/hello-world" title="9,277 reputation" class="comment-user owner">Hello-World</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/11901455/html-encode-textarea-value#comment15852240_11902092"><span title="2012-08-10T18:35:31.897 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Aug 10 '12 at 18:35</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-15852494" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="15852494" data-comment-owner-id="1156650" data-comment-score="1"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">1</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment15852494_11902092"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@Hello-World Escape encode special characters(with some exceptions), this way you'll only encode the necessary to html entities.</span> – <a href="../../users/1156650/ricardo-alvaro-lohmann" title="26,031 reputation" class="comment-user ">Ricardo Alvaro Lohmann</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/11901455/html-encode-textarea-value#comment15852494_11902092"><span title="2012-08-10T18:47:12.477 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Aug 10 '12 at 18:47</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <a name="11901829"></a> <div id="answer-11901829" class="answer " data-answerid="11901829" data-ownerid="19068" data-score="0" itemprop="suggestedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="11901829"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="0">0</div> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><blockquote> <p>it break here</p> </blockquote> <p>That isn't a very helpful description of the error, but I'm guessing you mean <em>I get an empty object</em>.</p> <p>Spell <code>textarea</code> correctly (it doesn't have an <code>e</code> in the middle), so that you assign the value of the textarea instead of <code>undefined</code> (which is what you get when you call <code>val()</code> on an empty jQuery object).</p> <p>This has nothing to do with HTML encoding. HTML isn't involved in this process at all. You take user input from a DOM, and then put it into JSON. JSON.stringify takes care of all your encoding needs. </p></div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="user-info "> <div class="user-action-time">edited <span title="2012-08-10T12:44:41.837" class="relativetime">Aug 10 '12 at 12:44</span></div> <div class="user-gravatar32"></div> <div class="user-details" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span class="d-none" itemprop="name">Quentin</span> <div class="-flair"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="answered Aug 10 '12 at 12:36">answered Aug 10 '12 at 12:36</time> <a href="../../users/19068/quentin" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/19068.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Quentin" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/19068/quentin" class="s-user-card--link">Quentin</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">914,110</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blinggold" title="126 gold badges">126</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingsilver" title="1,211 silver badges">1,211</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-bling__bronze" title="1,335 bronze badges">1,335</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> <div id="comments-11901829" class="comments js-comments-container bt bc-black-075 mt12 " data-post-id="11901829" data-min-length="15"> <ul class="comments-list js-comments-list" data-remaining-comments-count="0" data-canpost="false" data-cansee="true" data-comments-unavailable="false" data-addlink-disabled="true"> <li id="comment-15842561" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="15842561" data-comment-owner-id="19068" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment15842561_11901829"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@Hello-World — Why do you want to? HTML encoding is entirely irrelevant for the problem you describe.</span> – <a href="../../users/19068/quentin" title="914,110 reputation" class="comment-user ">Quentin</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/11901455/html-encode-textarea-value#comment15842561_11901829"><span title="2012-08-10T12:42:41.837 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Aug 10 '12 at 12:42</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script src="../../static/js/stack-icons.js"></script> <script src="../../static/js/fromnow.js"></script> </body> </html>