[Solved] RadComboBox client side call get_text() returning encoded characters

[Abhay Jain]

I am using a RadComboBox to display the list that is fetched using web service based on whatever text has been entered.

I want to put a validation on the text that it should allow only letters, numbers, spaces, hyphen or apostrophe.

The regular expression I am using is

var regex = new RegExp("[^a-zA-Z0-9\s`,-]+");

But the problem is that when I enter apostrophe and read the text of the combo box using get_text(), I get %60 instead of ` (hexadecimal representation of apostrophe).

Why is this happening? Is there any other function that I can use to get the exact text (in ASCII characters) that has been entered.

[Abhay Jain]

Kindly ignore this post.

I have got the answer why this was happening.

I was trying to get the text from the client side event handler (OnClientItemsRequesting event) using eventArgs instead of sender object.

Thanks.