Loading ...If you have ever tried to put pound sign (or any special character) in any input fields by Javascript, you know that it is not that straight forward.
If we write code like this,
document.getElementById('input_field_id').value = '£1000';
It’ll display some question mark(unrecognized character) instead of the pound sign.
So we need to put character’s unicode to display it properly. In this case, the code should look like this:
document.getElementById('input_field_id').value = '\u00A31000';
where \u00A3 is the character code of £
This was bugging me a lot, so I thought it does not bug any one else 
#1 by Richard on August 17th, 2010
Great Post Javascript HTML entity pound sign
#2 by DrPaul on March 9th, 2011
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
You just saved my sanity
#3 by MJ7 on July 6th, 2011
Thank you – just what I was looking for.
#4 by daemon on August 2nd, 2011
hm, nice post.
btw, I have some nice looking british pound symbol images on my site:
http://www.britishpoundsymbol.com
please feel free to download and use them in your documens, blogs, sites etc.
regards
#5 by Steven on October 27th, 2011
Thanks very much! I have been searching for this answer for about an hour