Setting a button value to contain an ampersand coded character via JavaScript

Question

I'm trying to set a button value to be « (or ») via JavaScript with the following code:

document.getElementById('hideButton').value='«';

This just sets the button text to « rather than «.

The HTML markup works fine (i.e. <input type="button" value="&laquo;">) giving the double left arrow quote on the button face.

Is there some special way of escaping the ampersand code in JavaScript?

Thanks,

FM

Answer 1

here just convert to UTF it should work.

document.getElementById('hideButton').value='\u00AB';
document.getElementById('otherButton').value='\u00BB';

here a link to convert special text