JavaScript Text Strings FAQ

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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?
FAQ 1767 How do you check to see if a string is contained within a list of strings?