row.data() which contains special characters

soulbriski

Hi

I've searched through all I can to find an answer to this but getting nowhere fast.

In this test case, clicking on a table row outputs the row data as an array and exactly as you would expect, including the apostrophe in Ashton O'Malley.

However, in my own project, the row data is output to the console as an object and apostrophes are printing as their encoded value of '

The only difference in the two scenarios is that the data source in mine comes from a MySql database.

Why can't I decode the row data so that I see ' instead of ' ?

Thanks for any help

kthorngren

I suspect your original data from the server has '. You can use columns.render to and replace ' with '. But then you will need to use cells().render() to get the rendered data. Here is an updated example:
http://live.datatables.net/vayeyeqa/1/edit

I only use columns.render to change the ' for Garrett Winters. It also uses toArray() with cells().render()to result in a JS array.

Kevin

soulbriski

Thanks Kevin

I had managed to convince myself that the data from the server was already decoded and it was ' not '

Thanks for waking me up!