Special Characters showing up in combo box drop down

Suite and Optimus Suite 5
#1

We are having issues with the DHTMLX PRO 3.6 with regard to a combo box inside a grid containing special characters like “>”.

The XML is returned with the option wrapped in CDATA and containing > as follows:

<cell type='coro' xmlcontent='true'>
      <![CDATA[Sales%7CClosing]]>
      <option value="Sales%7CArm+Twisting">
                <![CDATA[Sales &gt; Arm Twisting]]>
       </option>
       <option value="Sales%7CClosing">
                <![CDATA[Sales &gt; Closing]]>
       </option>
       <option value="Sales%7CQuota+Management">
                 <![CDATA[Sales &gt; Quota Management]]>
       </option>

However, when the user clicks on the drop down, they are seeing the special encodings “>” visually displayed. However, once they make a selection, then it is rendered properly as “>”.

Please see 2 screenshots, one when user clicks drop down, and one after they make their selection.



#2

If you are using the escaping of special chars in your data you don’t need to place that data in the CDATA section:

Sales > Arm Twisting
Sales > Closing
Sales > Quota Management

#3

Thank you that fixed it! :smiley: