How to Insert the Degree Symbol

[areed248]

I need to insert the degree symbol into my output. I know that in html, the symbol is ° or °. How do I include the html in javascript? Everything that I try returns an error.

[Gurok]

In Firefox, you can insert a degree symbol as follows:

document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode("\u00B0"));

"00B0" is the hexadecimal value of the degree symbol's index in the Unicode character set.

You can append it to output like so:

myOutput += "\u00B0";

You may need to modify it for other browsers, but it's a start. Hope this helps.

[Kor]

here's an online unicode convertor:
http://www.hot-tips.co.uk/useful/unicode_converter.HTML

When trying to insert a special character in a javascript string, you must always use its unicode escape value

\uXXXX , where XXXX is the hexa digits value of the ASCII