javascriptjqueryeuro

HTML escape for euro character not being interpreted in textarea?

It's showing € instead of the € (currency sign) in the textarea. Does anyone have an idea why this is going wrong?

<?php
$currency = "&euro;"; //using php with other data from database

echo "<script>
      $('#share_button').click(function(e){
      // pass the currency to javascript and put in textarea shared with other on clicks
           $('#snsdescp').val(`".$currency."`);
      });</script>";
?>

 //shared textarea
<textarea class="form-control" name="message" id="snsdescp"></textarea>
Solution

  • The val() method does no encoding/decoding, as a hack you can use the html() function for the encoding and then strip the text:

    $('#share_button').click(function(e){
    $('#snsdescp').val($("<div>").html("&euro;").text());
});

    Here is a working jsFiddle for your textarea.