Pass '&', returned from selecetd option value, in url

Question

<select name="n" onchange="if(this.selectedIndex != 0) window.location = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">
  <option value="url&amp;param={param}">
     <xsl:if condition>
       <xsl:attribute name="selected">true</xsl:attribute>
     </xsl:if>
  </option>
</select>

The code above works fine, it passes selected option to url. The only problem is that when the parameter contains '&' sign in between. How do I pass a parameter with a value like 'A & B'? urlencode seems not helpful? Thanks for your time!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3541711/javascript-url-encode — mikey, Oct 11 '15 at 01:53

Weihui Guo · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-09T21:24:53.793

Tried urlencode(), but it returns double escaping error. Note that this question is not about to simply encode the whole url, but to escape some Special Characters for passing parameters. I had another situation, in which a parameter value has '+' sign in the string. I figured that it's probably better to show the string but return a nameid something as the value, which is int. My option value changed to something like this:

  <select onchange="if(this.selectedIndex != 0) window.location = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">
    <option value="" selected="selected"><xsl:value-of select="/A/D/NAME"/></option>
    <xsl:for-each select="/A/B/C">                  
     <option value="URL&amp;Name={NAME}&amp;ID={ID}"
      <xsl:if test="NAME=/A/D/NAME"><xsl:attribute name="selected">true</xsl:attribute></xsl:if>
      <xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>
     </option>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </select>

The url now have the Id as the parameter2 matching the parameter1(Name). And I can use this Id to search the database and return the string(Name) to show again. This doesn't directly answer the question, but does provide a workaround.

Pass '&', returned from selecetd option value, in url

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