Javascript issue inside of a Python Module

Question

I'm trying to have Python run some Javascript, and I am running into a few issues. Namely that when I am trying to inject some text into a textarea of a page, it doesn't seem to work if and only if there is a newline (\n) as part of the variable inserted for the Javascript.

Here's my line:

br.runjs("document.getElementById('edit-body').value = '%s'" % (brag))

if the variable "brag" has any sort of newline in it at all, the insertion does not work. Any idea how to go around this?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-06 22:52:28Z

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Encode brag as JSON and then use that.

answered Jul 6, 2011 at 22:52

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Steven Matthews Over a year ago

Do you have an example of how to do that? My Javascript is far less good than my Python, I can only do basic things (in order to interact with web pages). Working on picking up more, but still not there.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Over a year ago

>>> print "var foo = %s" % (json.dumps('bar'),) var foo = "bar"

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