Re: embarrassingly easy question on JS

by "Martin Clifford" <MLC1(at)nrc.gov>

 Date:  Mon, 06 May 2002 08:30:13 -0400
 To:  <Hilma(at)hilma.freeserve.co.uk>,
<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
  todo: View Thread, Original
You have to use the built in JavaScript functions escape() and unescape() =
to encode and decode the special URL characters.  You'll also have to deal =
with this if you get into using PHP, so it's a good thing to know.

Martin

>>> "Hilma" <Hilma(at)hilma.freeserve.co.uk> 05/06/02 05:42AM >>>

hi all -

This is very basic (but it is a basic list ;-) -
and although  it is an HTML list, not a JS list, i hope someone will still
help!

I have succeeded in passing my photo name and title, as a string, to a new
page:

"javascript:openWindow('HHPhotoSingle.htm?Pic=3DDofE02,The Duke of =
Edinburgh
Team.','myNewWindow',800,600)"

But, the spaces have all been replaced by %20 in the JS, so when i display
this title, i get

"The%20Duke%20of %20Edinburgh%20Team!

I cannot work out what to look for in the thick JS manuals i have, and
whilst this must be pretty easy to fix, i can't find the correct page :-(

many thanks -

h.

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