InnerHTML with special character is trimming the data.

elem.innerHTML = displayedObjects.name;

here the displayedObjects.name contains a string like Test&string. The above statement is assigning the value only Test,

What could be done here?

InnerHTML with special character is trimming the data.

elem.innerHTML = displayedObjects.name;

here the displayedObjects.name contains a string like Test&string. The above statement is assigning the value only Test,

What could be done here?

• javascript
• html
• dom
• dhtml

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• 2 Hm, somebody already edited this, Why you return to plain text again? – vp_arth Commented Dec 16, 2013 at 6:16

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That's because Test&string isn't actually valid HTML, because & is an escape character for an HTML entity. If it were properly encoded, it would be Test&string instead.

If you're just trying to set the text of an element, I'd suggest you use innerText instead:

elem.innerText = displayedObjects.name;