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JSL: How to correctly display ampersand (&) in Textbox() with Markup?

Hello fellow JSL scripters,

 

  I'm trying to use an ampersand in a Text Box() call while also using the <

 

  As an example, here's some JSL that I thought should work, but doesn't.

 

w = New Window( "Formatted Text",
	Text Box( "This is <B>bold</B> text. This is <B><I>bold italic</I></B> text, & this is <U>underlined</U> text.",
	<<MARKUP></MARKUP>

  Instead, I get this as the output and an error in the log:

Warning: unterminated entity "&" encountered. -- Turning off markup flag -- This is bold text. This is bold italic text & is underlined text.
DisplayBox[EvalContextBox]

 

  I would have thought this would be easy to find a solution to, but JMP Help, Scripting Index, Scripting Guide, and searches don't really talk about this specific issue. I did try the HTML tag &, and it doesn't work.

 

Thanks for any help!,

DS

 

Automation and ScriptingRe: JSL: How to correctly display ampersand (&) in Textbox() with Markup?

I just found it by looking at the source code for my posting and saw that I wasn't using the & tag correct, it should be: & with the semicolon at the end. It works now.

 

Hope this helps others,

DS