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Question

I'm puzzled by finding out that newer version of Chrome, Opera and Safari don't allow control characters in text inside INPUT elements. In fact, characters like \\1 , \\x02 , \\b etc. are simply interpreted as string terminators.

var input = document.createElement('INPUT');
input.value = 'Hello\x02 World!';
alert('input.value is "' + input.value + '" (' + input.value.length + ' chars)');

The code above only outputs 5 characters on Chrome, Opera and Safari.

Firefox and IE do not show this behavior/bug/security feature or whatever. Now my question is how would you post a form containing those special characters in plain Javascript, in a way that works in all browsers?

JsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Nkx4n/

Answer 1

I'm in chrome and, like you, if i try to asign to the input a string with \\ in it, it stop, but there is no problem if the user enter it in the input directly, like you can see in this fiddle

    myP.innerHTML = "Length is: " + myInput.value.length + " chars" + "; text is: " + myInput.value;

I don't know if you need to set the value in code but if you don't there shouldn't be any problem because the user can still enter it and it's read.