jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid - Topic: removing special characters from ids

OlegK on removing special characters from ids

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:35:14 +0300

You are right Tony,

one can not use the line

ts.p.colModel[i].name = $.jgrid.jqID(ts.p.colModel[i].name);

Probably one should only replace ts.p.colModel[i].name to $.jgrid.jqID(ts.p.colModel[i].name) in the lines 2039 and 2041 of grid.base.js.

The removing of characters, which are not permitted in id (like blanks), from the string which returns $.jgrid.jqID() seems me desirable regardless of all other things.

Best regrads
Oleg

tony on removing special characters from ids

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:37:40 +0300

Hello Oleg,

I'm not sure that this fix is the appropriate.

Imagrine the field contain . (dot) after this fix and after query the name we will have escaped name - i.e not correct.

Regards

Tony

OlegK on removing special characters from ids

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:16:52 +0300

Hello Tony,

One common problem of newcomers is the usage of special characters like spaces (blanks) in the places which will be used as ids or to construct ids: the name property of colNames or ids of the rows. The name property will be used for example to build ids of the <th> elements of the table (see line 2039 of grid.base.js).

I suggest:

1) to include a the and of for loop at the line 1955 some additional lines:

for (i=0; i<ts.p.colModel.length;i++) {
   ts.p.colModel[i] = $.extend(true, {}, ts.p.cmTemplate, ts.p.colModel[i].template || {}, ts.p.colModel[i]);
   if (ts.p.keyIndex === false && ts.p.colModel[i].key===true) {
   ts.p.keyIndex = i;
   }
   if(typeof(ts.p.colModel[i].index)) === "undefined") {
   typeof(ts.p.colModel[i].index = ts.p.colModel[i].name;
   }
   ts.p.colModel[i].name = $.jgrid.jqID(ts.p.colModel[i].name);
}

The code will allows to use special charactres (like 'id asc, name asc') in the index, but not in the names.

2) Expand the code of jqID to remove all characters which not corresponds to the W3C CSS specification at least space characters as the most common problem.

Best regards
Oleg