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Passing a text to parent window

Hi,

I have a parent page and a child page that I am passing a string from the child page to the parent page.

the problem is when the text has ' my javascript will not work .

on the parent page I have 

  <textarea name="Headline" id="Headline" cols="8" rows="3"  style="vertical-align:top;width:600px;color:#555555; font-size:12px;"></textarea>

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on the child page

	function SendValue(GetCQTicket,GetHeadLine)
		{
			window.parent.document.getElementById('CQTicketID').value = GetCQTicket;
			window.parent.document.getElementById('Headline').value = GetHeadLine;
			window.parent.$('#ViewFindTicketdialog:visible').dialog('close');			
		}


<SPAN onclick="SendValue('ent00116901','Add '0180 Leave of Absence' to the bed type drop down menu for BH UM cases.');" style="CURSOR: pointer; COLOR: #4a79a5">ent00116901</SPAN>

Note: the headline data has '  that's why my javascript is not working 

How can I pass the data correct  ?

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Thank you
Lulu

Tom Beck

You can escape the single quotes with a backslash.

<SPAN onclick="SendValue('ent00116901','Add \'0180 Leave of Absence\' to the bed type drop down menu for BH UM cases.');" style="CURSOR: pointer; COLOR: #4a79a5">ent00116901</SPAN>

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Or you can use double quotes on the outside.

<SPAN onclick="SendValue('ent00116901',"Add '0180 Leave of Absence' to the bed type drop down menu for BH UM cases.");" style="CURSOR: pointer; COLOR: #4a79a5">ent00116901</SPAN>

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lulu50

ASKER

Tom,

I have no control of what the headline is going to be.

I can't change the data in the headline and I tried the " but it did not work.

onclick="SendValue('#CQticketSearchResult.id#','"'#CQticketSearchResult.Headline#'"');"

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