SelectItem- Issue with html char (&)

[bskande]

I have a problem with SelectItem (com.smartgwt.client.widgets.form.fields.SelectItem). The values after '&' (ampersand) is trimmed.
For Ex: If I select a values AB&C, the select item it only shows AB. Anything after & will not be visible.
This is habbening only in IE browser. In Google Crome it is working fine.

Environment: Win7, IE8 browser. SmartGwt 3.0

Code:
SelectItem ownCOE = new SelectItem("ownCOE", "Owning COE");
ownCOE.setValueMap(toolData.getOwningCOEList_New());
ownCOE.setDefaultValue(toolData.getOwningCOE());
ownCOE.setWidth(250);

[Isomorphic]

Display values in a valueMap are treated as HTML. So & needs to be &

Note it's incorrect for both browsers, Chrome is just being more forgiving.

[RLL]

Also try...

ownCOE.setEscapeHTML(true);

This worked for me, though I'm using a datasource-bound selectItem, which shouldn't matter.

[bskande]

Don't find setEscapeHTML(boolean) method.

I don't find setEscapeHTML(boolean) method defined for SelectItem.

I'm importing below SelectItem.
import com.smartgwt.client.widgets.form.fields.SelectItem;