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How to safely use "&" symbol in a javascript variable without it turning to "&&qu

Time:01-05

I am trying to execute the following code:

<button onclick="increment()">Increment</button>
<div id="iframe">
<script>
var id = 139000;
var link='<iframe src="https://somewebsite.com/something.aspx?sa=1&pid='   id   '" height="600px" width="100%" />';
function increment(){
id  ;
document.getElementById('iframe').innerHTML = id   link ;
}
</script>
</div>

But while executing, the & in src="" converts to &amp; which breaks the original URL and doesn't go to the desired destination. I looked up on the internet but as I am a noob, I was not able to figure it out. Please help me to make this work!

CodePudding user response:

All you need to do is

<button onclick="increment()">Increment</button>
<div id="iframe">
<script>
var id = 139000;
var link='<iframe src="https://somewebsite.com/something.aspx?sa=1&pid='   id   
'" height="600px" width="100%" />';
var new_link = link.replaceAll('&amp;','&');

function increment(){
id  ;
document.getElementById('iframe').innerHTML = id   new_link;
}
</script>

CodePudding user response:

This is definitely a blogger issue, and the reason behind happening is :

The character "&" is an ISO HTML reserved character used to denote the start of a parameter.

To overcome this the Blogger editor translate the & you enter to the HTML entity, &amp; , that will display & when the page or URL is rendered in a browser, so that you don't have to do it yourself.

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