Bug 43914 – Unicode Chars don't work with innerHTML

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: DOM

[Mike Wilcox]

Observed on Safari 5.0.1 6533.17.8 (why don't you guys update the version drop down?)

Unicode works correctly in HTML:
<p>&#10005</p>

But does not work dynamically:
document.getElementsByTagName("div")[0].innerHTML = "&#10005";

I know innerHTML is non-standard, so I tried the following. I may not have done it right:
document.getElementsByTagName("div")[0].appendChild(document.createTextNode("&#10005"))

Finally, I found there is a work-around by adding a space after:
document.getElementsByTagName("div")[0].innerHTML = "&#10005 "; // works!!

[Mike Wilcox]

Never mind. I forgot the semi-colon. It worked in Firefox without it. They've led me astray before!!