IE8 - Select issue with &, < or > characters.

[yavery]

Hi,

We have an issue with &, < or > characters in Select values. To reproduce
the problem, use the following steps (using the ISC feature explorer)

DESCRIPTION:

Select does not render correctly the selected item if the name ends with
a &, < or > character in Internet Explorer (reproduced under IE8/win32). Works fine under Firefox.

TO REPRODUCE:

http://www.smartclient.com/index.jsp#selectItem

1- In the source view, modify a country name to include an ampersand ('&') sign at the end (China& for example)
2- Click the 'Try it' button
3- In the drop-down list, the country shows up correctly with the '&' sign
4- Pick the modified country (the one with the '&' sign)
5- The selected item name does not include the '&' sign

Any idea how this can fixed or worked around?

Kind regards,

[Isomorphic]

Display values are interpreted as HTML, so use standard HTML quoting for special characters (&amp; &lt; &gt; and so forth).

[yavery]

You are right - I should have thought about that. Next time we'll dig a bit more before sending an issue.

Thanks,