- JavaScript Text Strings FAQ Knowledge Base

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• FAQ 37 How do I embed single and double quotes within a string?
  
  
• FAQ 100 How can I add diacritical letters such as è to a textarea?
  
  
• FAQ 132 Is there a maximum string length?
  
  
• FAQ 133 How do you make a text link read "Naht S'wew?" and Then OnMouseOver change to "What's New?"?
  
  
• FAQ 171 How can I implement a Search capability to find a word in the current document using JavaScript?
  
  
• FAQ 229 How can you filter multiple words in an array and replace them with other words?
  
  
• FAQ 241 How do I strip leading and trailing blanks off of a string (without writing a function to treat character by character)?
  
  
• FAQ 242 How can I replace diacritical characters?
  
  
• FAQ 243 How can I replace HTML entities with the appropriate characters?
  
  
• FAQ 278 How can I reverse text in a form field?
  
  
• FAQ 279 How can I ROT13 text in a textarea?
  
  
• FAQ 303 How can I force all characters to be uppercase before the user submits the form?
  
  
• FAQ 348 How can I ensure that a string only contains characters that I want?
  
  
• FAQ 356 Can I grab the selected text from a page?
  
  
• FAQ 362 Is it possible for a character sequence of a/ to be combined into the aacute diacritical character?
  
  
• FAQ 424 How do you convert a character to it's ascii value without using the V4 browser compatible charCodeAt()?
  
  
• FAQ 489 How can I provide a simple search facility on a page?
  
  
• FAQ 501 Is there any quick non-recursive sort?
  
  
• FAQ 520 How do I change the size of the font?
  
  
• FAQ 531 How can I capitalise the first letter of every word?
  
  
• FAQ 569 How do you change the text size and make it bold?
  
  
• FAQ 631 Are you sure you can't simulate charCodeAt() in browsers that don't support it?
  
  
• FAQ 678 Can I unselect selected text?
  
  
• FAQ 709 How can I remove invalid characters from a form field before submission?
  
  
• FAQ 745 How can I use the find() method in Netscape Navigator 4 to search the text in a textarea form field?
  
  
• FAQ 771 How can I simply replace a character pair like \n with something like a ^?
  
  
• FAQ 841 How can I seach an array of text strings so that as you type in a search term it finds and highlights any matches?
  
  
• FAQ 941 How can I convert all the text in a textarea to upper case, when the text has changed?
  
  
• FAQ 972 How can I convert an ASCII code to the correct character?
  
  
• FAQ 977 What is the hexidecimal Latin-1 encoding value for the backslash character (\)?
  
  
• FAQ 1007 What is the continuation character in JavaScript?
  
  
• FAQ 1018 How do I replace all the carriage returns in a string?
  
  
• FAQ 1116 Why is it not a good idea to have strings beyond 255 characters?
  
  
• FAQ 1122 Is there any way to find the ASCII value of a character?
  
  
• FAQ 1140 Is there a javascript function to convert non standard text characters to their ANSI code?
  
  
• FAQ 1227 How can I encode a character string into its hexadecimal ASCII representation?
  
  
• FAQ 1310 How can I trim leading or trailing whitespace/extra spaces?
  
  
• FAQ 1325 Is there any way to reverse a string?
  
  
• FAQ 1393 How can I strip leading and trailing characters?
  
  
• FAQ 1474 Can you do string concatenationin JavaScript like you can in other scripting languages?
  
  
• FAQ 1583 How can I replace all non alphanumeric characters from a string?
  
  
• FAQ 1600 How do I use the inch sign (") in a string?
  
  
• FAQ 1619 How do I get a word count of a string?
  
  
• FAQ 1637 How can I get the first 200 characters from a text string?
  
  
• FAQ 1653 How can I compare two strings to ensure they are equal?
  
  
• FAQ 1658 How do I automatically insert a character after every Nth character in a string?
  
  
• FAQ 1699 How can I create a fixed length String Buffer that I can append text to?
  
  
• FAQ 1726 How can I count of number of instances of a particular word or character in a string?
  
  
• FAQ 1749 How can I assign five substrings of a larger string to the variables named str1, str2... to str5?
  
  
• FAQ 1750 How do I test the equality of two strings?
  
  
• FAQ 1752 Can JavaScript use newline characters to format the output?