RadPrompt and HtmlEncode Values

[digitall]

I am building a small photo gallery where individual items can have a caption associated with them and changing this value is completed with a simple radprompt() call. The problem I have run into is since user's could enter characters that would break javascript (such as apostrophe's) I do an HtmlEncode on the original value which is filled into the prompt box as the default value. When the prompt displays though, the HtmlEncoded characters (such as &#39 for an apostrophe) are shown in the prompt box which is obviously not ideal. Is there a way to get the correct characters to show for the default value?

[Marin Bratanov]

Hello,

An apostrophe can be put in the radprompt default value and it will be returned properly, e.g.:

<telerik:RadWindowManager runat="server" ID="rwm1"></telerik:RadWindowManager>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" Text="prompt" OnClientClick="callPrompt(); return false;" runat="server" />

function callPrompt()
{
    function callBackFn(arg)
    {
        alert(arg);
    }
    var defaultValue = "some'text ' with'apostrophes '";
    radprompt("message", callBackFn, 300, 200, null, "title", defaultValue);
}

If you are expecting values that can cause problems you can use, for example, regular expressions to remove them either from the initial value you pass, or from the returned value in the callback function. The following function shows an example that will change a sign to its encoded value and then show it correctly in the dialog:

var defaultValue = "some value ' here";
defaultValue = defaultValue.replace(/'/g, "_myApostrophePlaceholder_");
var rp = radprompt("enter value", callBackFn, 300, 200, null, "title", defaultValue);
var promptInput = $telerik.$(".rwDialogInput", rp.get_popupElement());
promptInput.val(promptInput.val().replace(/_myApostrophePlaceholder_/g, "'"));

Regards,
Marin Bratanov
the Telerik team