How to escape “&” ampersand character in form input using jQuery

Question

I have a problem with my jQuery script that send data via POST method. The problem is whenever it sends data via Ajax that has an "&" ampersand in the sentence

Answer 1

You can use a native javascript escape() function

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data: : "&task_d=" + escape(task_d) + "" 

Alternatively, you could enclose your query string values in quotes

data: : "&task_d='" + task_d + "'"