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  Unterminated String constant error Bhushan Kakulte <b.kakulte@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 23:18 -0800
    Re: Unterminated String constant error Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-01-24 10:35 +0100
      Re: Unterminated String constant error Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-24 17:32 +0100

#10529 — Unterminated String constant error

Hi,

I have content from textarea which contains newline character also. I
am storing this data in database.
<textarea id="text1">unknown
data</textarea>

I extract the data (textarea value) we stored in database. When I
tried to use this content in table it gives string unterminated
constant error.
consider val1=text1.value
<table>
<tr>
<td title=val1> </td>
</tr>
</table>

Please tell me how to handle newline character from textarea.

Thanks,
Bhushan

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#10530

On 1/24/2012 8:18 AM, Bhushan Kakulte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have content from textarea which contains newline character also. I
> am storing this data in database.
> <textarea id="text1">unknown
> data</textarea>

First check:
Did that work alright?
Is the data actually stored in the database?


>
> I extract the data (textarea value) we stored in database. When I
> tried to use this content in table it gives string unterminated
> constant error.
> consider val1=text1.value

What has "val1=text1.value" to do with the data you took out of the 
database?
I would expect you have some data stored in some serverside variable.
You above example (val1=text1.value) is Javascript (sort of).



> <table>
> <tr>
> <td title=val1>  </td>

That makes no sense at all.
Please explain what you are trying to do.

If you want the title of that <td> to hold information from the database 
you should do something like this:
[PHP example]

<td title="<?php echo $myTitle; ?>">...</td>

Mind the "".
Also make sure $myTitle is appropriately escaped.
When the raw data for title contains " you get into trouble when you 
don't escape.


> </tr>
> </table>
>
> Please tell me how to handle newline character from textarea.
>

What do you want to do with the data from the textarea?
You question is impossible to answer without such context.

It is like you ask me: "What must I do with this 10 dollar note?".
Give some context, and people can help you better.


> Thanks,
> Bhushan

Regards,
Erwin Moller

-- 
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without 
evidence."
-- Christopher Hitchens

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#10540

Erwin Moller wrote:

> If you want the title of that <td> to hold information from the database
> you should do something like this:
> [PHP example]
> 
> <td title="<?php echo $myTitle; ?>">...</td>
> 
> Mind the "".
> Also make sure $myTitle is appropriately escaped.

Like

  <?php echo htmlspecialchars($myTitle, ENT_COMPAT, $encoding); ?>

> When the raw data for title contains "

or `<' and `&'.

> you get into trouble when you don't escape.

ACK.


PointedEars
-- 
    realism:    HTML 4.01 Strict
    evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
    madness:    XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
                                                    -- Bjoern Hoehrmann

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