By phacts on

Hello Drupal-World,

I'm altering the output of a form using hook_form_alter, and I've run into this problem before, and always found ways to side-step it. I figured, might as well put this out there, and see if anyone can shed any light on this. Anyway, here is the deal:

I want to use » as the value for my submit button. I've simplified the code below, so that you get the point.

<?php
function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
	if ($form_id == 'finder_form_1') {
		$form['submit']['#value'] = "&raquo;";
	}
}
?>

This, of course, products & r a q u o ; as the value for my submit button (sans the spaces). No good! So, next I pasted the actual character into the code directly:

<?php
function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
	if ($form_id == 'finder_form_1') {
		$form['submit']['#value'] = "»";
	}
}
?>

And this results in NOTHING showing up in the value field for the submit button.

Anyone run into this?

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Comments

newbie888’s picture

newbie888 commented

try unicode.

phacts’s picture

phacts commented

Thanks, and I feel stupid for asking this but... what would that look like?

TapSkill’s picture

TapSkill commented

It would be the number code for the character. Also, you would have to set the webpage to display using unicode and not something else.

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jamesmorrish’s picture

jamesmorrish commented

This should work:

http://jamesmorrish.co.uk/blog/using-raquo-in-a-submit-button-using-hook...