Escaping characters in jQuery

Question

I've googled and I've checked stackoverflow for an answer, but yet I haven't found a proper one. My input regularly contains & (ampersand) and @ so I would need to escape that variable CN99, how can i do this with jquery?

$("#CompanyNameFilter").focus(function() {
    var CN99 = $("#CompanyNameFilter").val();

    $.ajax({
        url: "clients.php?companyname=" + CN99,
        dataType: "html",
        success: function(html) {
            var div = $("#companyList", $(html)).addClass("done");
            $("#companyList").html(div);
        }
    });

});

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/332872/how-to-encode-a-url-in-javascript this you check this? — linuxeasy, Feb 25 '12 at 16:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '12 at 16:17

You should pass the url parameters with the data option of ajax..

$("#CompanyNameFilter").focus(function() {
    var CN99 = $("#CompanyNameFilter").val();

    $.ajax({
        url: 'clients.php',
        data: {companyname: CN99},
        type: 'get',
        dataType: "html",
        success: function(html) {
            var div = $("#companyList", $(html)).addClass("done");
            $("#companyList").html(div);
        }
    });
});

This way jQuery will handle the encoding

Escaping characters in jQuery

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