Removing ampersand - regular expresion replace with javascript

Hi, I would like to remove ampersands from text and repace them with
the HTML special character.

This is so that I can use them in a query string.

This is my code but it doesn't work, can you see a problem with it?

//if have needed to escape the string for previous operations

textarea.value=unescape(textarea.value);
content = textarea.value;
content = content.replace("&","&");

Thanks in adance

Jon

Jon wrote:

Hi, I would like to remove ampersands from text and repace them with
the HTML special character.

This is so that I can use them in a query string.

This is my code but it doesn't work, can you see a problem with it?

//if have needed to escape the string for previous operations

textarea.value=unescape(textarea.value);
content = textarea.value;
content = content.replace("&","&");

Have you tried quoting the ampersand (which is also an SGML special
character)?:

content = content.replace("&","&");

Also, are you sure you're using the "content" variable afterward properly?