Javascript html character problems

[eternal]

Hi I am passing a php variable:

$text = "example ¾"

Into javascript:

var message="<?=$text2?>"

Then outputting it:

document.write('<span id="neonlight'+m+'">'+message.charAt(m)+'</span>')

This is outputting &#190; and not the correct html character.

Is there a way around this?

[penders]

Your 'html character' is only a singular html character when it is actually output in the browser window, until that point it is just the sequence of characters '&','#','1','9','0',';'.

I would have said that you need to convert it to the 'real character' back in the PHP, instead of using the html entity &#190; ...?

You could try using the html_entity_decode() [uk.php.net] PHP function, like:

$text = 'example '.html_entity_decode('¾');

...?

[eternal]

Nice! That works well, thank you very much.