Pound signs in forms input fields

[LordPaul]

My form is called itemform and Post1st is a text input field...

if I do:

itemform.Post1st.value='£';

the box says: £

so I thought if I do:

itemform.Post1st.value='£';

but the box says: £

Any ideas?

[Greven]

Haven't testings, but you could try:

\u00A3

I beleive that's the unicode for the pound symbol.

[Longhaired Genius]

Do you have a charset declaration in the head of the document containing the form? For example:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

If so, what is your charset? ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 or something else?

[LordPaul]

\u00A3 seemed to work, thanks!

I haven't specified a charset, it was only a page for my own use so I didn't add all these things to the head. Maybe that would have made a difference, too. Thanks as well.

[Rambo Tribble]

Yet another approach, that should work, would be to use:

String.fromCharCode(163)

(I guess you could say these are all Sterling examples of character code variants.)