character entities – mimoYmima / Web Design Brooklyn Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:18:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 adding a character entity into an object in jquery /adding-a-character-entity-into-an-object-in-jquery/ /adding-a-character-entity-into-an-object-in-jquery/#respond Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:18:53 +0000 http://www.mimoymima.com/?p=4360 Pretty simple stuff but since I'm still a little rusty on jquery I spent a lot of time trying to get the entity to show up using text: by escaping characters. (spoiler: don't use text: use html:

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]]> Pretty simple stuff but since I’m still a little rusty on jquery I spent a lot of time trying to get the entity to show up using text: by escaping characters. (spoiler: don’t use text: use html:

Right Way

$('<span></span>',{
  html: '&amp;oplus;&nbsp;',
  class: 'plus-minus'
}).prependTo('.event-table-show-hide .expand-list .click-to-expand');

Wrong Way

$('<span></span>',{
  text: '&amp;oplus;&nbsp;',
  class: 'plus-minus'
}).prependTo('.event-table-show-hide .expand-list .click-to-expand');

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