Passing eval through JavaScript function not quite working

Question

ive got some answers from the search but my function is still not running

my code

<a href="javascript:;" onclick='<%# "search(" + Eval("Name") + ");" %>'><%# Eval("Name") %></a></li>

function

    function search(val) {
        alert(val);
        searchPagingTable(val, '#tblUsers');
    }

the html looks like

<a onclick="search(Fred);" href="javascript:;">

console error

SCRIPT5009: 'Fred' is undefined

i think i need to get the quotes around the string, but if i put single quotes in the aspx, that fails too with a different error

Thanks for any help

Matthew Graves · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-27 09:53:08Z

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do it like so:

onclick='<%# "search(\"" + Eval("Name") + "\");" %>'>

adding the escaped quotes will fix it.

answered Jun 27, 2013 at 9:53

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thebenman Over a year ago

But when I tried this I got something like this func("VALUE"). Any Ideas?

Matthew Graves Over a year ago

something is parsing the quotes. I would need more info to know.

Seidr · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-27 09:51:29Z

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Try escaping the quotes around the string.

<a href="javascript:;" onclick='<%# "search(\'" + Eval("Name") + ");"\' %>'><%# Eval("Name") %></a></li>

By the looks of things, you were trying to call the 'search' function with a variable called 'Fred' as the argument, whereas you want to provide a string with the content set to 'Fred' as the argument. Correct me if I'm wrong.

answered Jun 27, 2013 at 9:51

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