How to escape special characters on UI Page? raquo

[dbhertel]

Hello   - on a UI Page a simple button should be able to reference special HTML characters, like the &raquo     raquo »   but when saving the UI page the XML is rejected (can't save the UI page.. XML parse rejects it).     I know the characters have to be escaped but having trouble figuring out the kludgy jelly syntax

HTML code works fine when not being created inside a UI page:

<a class="btn btn-primary" href="#"   >Button Label &raquo;</a>

I've tried variations of this syntax:   <a class="btn btn-primary" href="#"   >Button Label   ${&amp} raquo;} </a>  

Its probably just a escape syntax issue as described here:   How to Escape in Jelly - ServiceNow Wiki but haven't found the secret sauce to do this.     Shouldn't be this hard to make work.........

Any help appreciated....

[User140988 · Accepted solution]

Hi dbhertel,

Use the below method : I have given a small script to display a button with label "Terms & Conditions" with an ampersand in between. Declare a jelly variable as shown below and you can call this jelly variable where ever necessary in the jelly tags:

<j2:set var="jvar_amp" value="&amp;"/>

<button> Terms $[jvar_amp] conditions </button>

When this UI page content is tried, a button comes up with "Terms & conditions" as label.

[dbhertel]

Thank you -- appreciate you sharing the secret sauce

I've combined the jelly variable with the 'raquo" directly after the jelly var and it renders the special char correctly. Thanks!