Special char jquery

Question

I have a problem with >and jquery datatable shows '>' fine but when I click on the row I get the character > and I'm desperate.

Any solution?

$('#sample tbody').on('click', 'tr', function() {
    //console.log(table.row(this).data());
    $(".modal-bodya div span").text("");
    $(".new span").text(dataTable.row(this).data()[2]);

Answer 1

The issue is because you're using text() , which does not encode HTML entities. To get the output you expect use html() instead.

 let value = 'foo > bar'; $(".text span").text(value); $(".html span").html(value);

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js"></script> <div class="text">Text: <span></span></div> <div class="html">HTML: <span></span></div>