I'm not sure how proper a solution that would be -- there are a lot more html
entities than just those and I don't think writing a replace for each character
makes much sense.
I was initially under the impression that if I used the htmlText property, a
string like "something & something" would auto-magically be converted to
"something & something". If this isn't the case, is there a property or
component in Flex which I'm overlooking that would automatically take care of
this?
I suppose the main problem is with the text example I presented: "This is an
item > This is another item > In a breadcrumb trail". I suppose using htmlText
would not work because the '>' characters would be taken as closing tags? Maybe
I can just write a function to replace '<' and '>'. (?)
Do you or any others have other suggestions or comments on what a good approach
would be?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <tr...@...> wrote:
>
> So I understand that the data is not html, but just has some html encoded
> entities in it correct?
>
>
>
> You can manually convert the data yourself. Regular expressions are
> probably a better way to go, but I do not use them enough to be comfortable
> with them, and use a function like this:
>
> public static function htmlDecode(s:String):String
>
> {
>
> s=s.split("&").join("&");
>
> s=s.split(""").join("\"");
>
> s=s.split("'").join("'");
>
> s=s.split("/<").join("</");
>
> s=s.split("<").join("<");
>
> s=s.split("/>").join("/>");
>
> s=s.split(">").join(">");
>
> return s;
>
> }
>
>
>
> The replace() function might be better as well.
>
>
>
> Tracy Spratt,
>
> Lariat Services, development services available
>
> _____
>
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of s_grollins
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 9:42 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Properly display html entities in datagrid
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've recently come across a problem at work where in much of the data we're
> getting is showing up in the data-grid as:
>
> <b>The tags show<b> and the " quotes " aren't converted!
>
> This is a problem and I'd like to be able to display this correctly:
>
> The tags show and the " quotes " aren't converted!
>
> We don't necessarily have too much control over the data, so I'm not
> entirely sure how/why the items are coming up like this when some items come
> up with characters like < > in them. For instance: "This is an item > This
> is another item > In a breadcrumb trail". This shows up correctly. I'm not
> sure what exactly should be done. But again since we don't have
> control/access to the data, it cannot be changed or substituted or converted
> to other formats. I thought of using htmlText but that doesn't work if I
> have data like the "breadcrumb string" above because it interprets the '<'
> characters as opening tags and doesn't render the entire data:
>
> [Bindable]
> private var testString:String = "<b>6<b> "seven"";
>
> <mx:Text text="{testString}" /> <!-- displays testString unchanged -->
> <mx:Text htmlText="{testString}" /> <!-- displays: <b>6</b> -->
>
> Any suggestions would definitely be appreciated, I'm sure I'm probably not
> the only person that's come across this :( But basically we just need all
> characters like: < to be converted to '<' and & to be '&' meanwhile
> data that was encoded properly, data that has '<' and '&' showing up
> correctly should be left the same.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help :)
>
