printing & in html

[Utsav Verma]

Hi i have to add javascript validation in datagrid edititemtemplate. I code as follows textbox = e.Item.Cells(0).FindControl("txtBill").ClientID() textbox = "Form1." & textbox val = "return ( ForceEntry(document.getElementById('" & textbox & "'), 'Expenditure Bill No')" textbox = e.Item.Cells(0).FindControl("txtBillDetail").ClientID() 'textbox = "Form1." & textbox val = val & "&& ForceMoney(document.getElementById('" & textbox & " '), 'Expenditure Bill No')" val = val & "&& ForceEntry(document.getElementById('" & textbox & "'), 'Expenditure Bill Details')" textbox = e.Item.Cells(0).FindControl("txtAmt").ClientID() 'textbox = "Form1." & textbox val = val & "&& ForceEntry(document.getElementById('" & textbox & "'), 'Ammount')" val = val & "&& ForceMoney(document.getElementById('" & textbox & "'), 'Ammount')" val = val & ");" lnkb.Attributes.Add("onclick", val) but this code give me javascript error object required (javascript function used is ok) What problem i identified (may b wrong) in this code that character & is printed as & so if you have faced this problem or know the solution than plz tell me Thanks in advance Utsav Verma

[Guffa]

I think that you mean that the character & is represented in the code as &. That is just as it should be. As the code is a value in an html tag, it has to be html encoded. So that is not the cause of the error. The cause of the error is that you are using the method getElementById with something that is not an id. You have put together the name of the form with the id of the field. That is perhaps a reference to the field, but it is not the id of the field. Skip this line: textbox = "Form1." & textbox --- b { font-weight: normal; }