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I have an input hidden element, the value of which contains JSON of an HTML encoded string. Something like

{"QuestionInstruction":"<snippet lang="java"> public class Test() {\n\n}</snippet>","QuestionDescription":"it this correct?","Choices":["True","False"] }

and when I do 

var text = document.getElementById('inputId').value,

the &quot automatically gets converted to "". The value of text comes as - 

{"QuestionInstruction":"<snippet lang="java"> public class Test() {\n\n}</snippet>","QuestionDescription":"it this correct?","Choices":["True","False"] }

So, then JSON parsing fails. :(

I am using FF9.

animuson
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I have managed to get around this by using the following function if I know to expect a value that could contain quotes when creating a JSON string/object...

function getJSONFriendlyString(text) {
    return text.replace(/"/g, "\\\"");
}

Hope that helps you

musefan
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  • please see my edited question and let know how your answer could be a solution – saarthak Feb 21 '12 at 15:25
  • @saarthak: So how is the hidden input being set? why are only some quotes shown as `"`? you may need to go to the code that creates the JSON string in the first place and try and resolve from there – musefan Feb 21 '12 at 15:32
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    Hey @musefan, I didn't do exactly like you said but did html encoding after preparing the JSON. and that worked. Thanks for hinting. :) – saarthak Feb 21 '12 at 16:05