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JQuery and special characters in attribute

Anonymous User 2806 07-Oct-2013

In my jquery script I need to dynamically translate some content, so part of such function is

$('#password').attr('placeholder', 'Contrase&ntilde;a');

where I tried to change placeholder attribute to text Contraseña.

Unfortunatelly, jquery shows text Contraseña

What does a trick to force jquery to show correct decoded text?

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Updated on 08-Oct-2013

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08-Oct-2013

You have to escape special characters using JavaScript syntax, not HTML syntax.

$('#password').attr('placeholder', 'Contrase\u00f1a');

Personally I'd use .prop() instead of .attr() too, though both should work here.

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