[Solved] Replacing/escaping/encoding special characters inside ClientTemplate

[Vesselin Obreshkov]

Is there a way to replace/escape/encode special characters when using ClientTemplates?

For example:

.ClientTemplate( @"<a href=""javascript: ShowOffer(<#= OfferID #>, '<#= OfferName #>');""><#= OfferName #></a>" )

The above will not work if OfferName contains a single quote (') for instance and something of the sort <#= OfferName.ToString().Replace(""'"", ""\'"") #> unfortunately doesn't work (only works for server template... obviously).

Only way I can think of is to include another field in my ViewModels, something like OfferNameEncoded but I will have to re-write a ton of stuff to do this. There has got to be a an easier way. I can't believe I hadn't thought of this and have all these broken codes all over the place. Can something like $.telerik.formatString be used to achieve this or have I been programming too much today and need to go to bed? Help!!! :/ 

Thanks!

[Eric Villemure]

We have the same problem here, is there a way to fix this?

[Vesselin Obreshkov]

Not really, you need to escape your strings before you feed them into your JavaScript. I have added a simple property in my ViewModel to strip out special characters (JS Friendly) and using that instead...

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello Vesselin,

 "OfferName" is a JavaScript variable (sort of) and you can use the String methods as you see fit. For example:

<#= OfferName.replace("foo", "bar") #>

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team