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Problem parsing an inline javascript

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    amirfl Reply #1, 19 years, 11 months ago
    I am trying to add a simple javascript into the text editor (not the rich text editor but the clean one). When viewing my rendered page I found out that ModX converted all my 
    \'
    (slant followed by apostraphe) tags to 
    '
    (an apostraphe without the slant) this made the javascript unusable. is there any way to make ModX show the missing slant?

    example:
    this is what i’m trying to enter:
    <a target="newwin" href="http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/airplane_handbook/" onmouseover="this.T_WIDTH=140;return escape('<img src=\'afhCover.jpg\' width=\'130\'>')">Airplane Flying Handbook</a>


    and this is what i get on the rendered page:
    <a target="newwin" href="http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/airplane_handbook/" onmouseover="this.T_WIDTH=140;return escape('<img src='afhCover.jpg' width='130'>')">Airplane Flying Handbook</a>


    Thank you and great job on making ModX!
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      opengeek Reply #2, 19 years, 11 months ago
      MODx version? Any additional platform/environment information might be helpful as well.
        Jason Coward
        Chief Architect @ MODX
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        ram Reply #3, 19 years, 11 months ago
        If you add all your event-driven code to an external .js file MODx will never have to parse your JavaScript at all.
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          amirfl Reply #4, 19 years, 11 months ago
          I am running on an apache server with ModX version 0.9.2.1.
          There are no problems with any of the ModX features. Just trying to find a way to get over this parsing problem.

          If its not possible i will use an external .js

          Thank you
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            opengeek Reply #5, 19 years, 11 months ago
            Why not use double-quotes for that stuff you are escaping? That would be the valid approach anyway, since single quotes around HTML attribute values is not valid.

            <a target="newwin" href="http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/airplane_handbook/" onmouseover="this.T_WIDTH=140;return '<img src="afhCover.jpg" width="130">'">Airplane Flying Handbook</a>


            Wouldn’t that work? I guess not, nevermind...

            Yeah, I think calling a js function there would be the best choice, but I would like to know why that is happening; I remember running into this problem when using MODx to generate JSON responses.
              Jason Coward
              Chief Architect @ MODX
              http://www.jasoncoward.com | http://twitter.com/drumshaman | https://github.com/opengeek