> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Dell'Aringa [mailto:pixelmech at yahoo.com] > Sent: July 10, 2002 3:36 PM > which does not work, JS rightly thinks that is some kind of > variable or somesuch. Putting in quotes gives you the string > of course...how else could I do it? Use the Unicode values. I built a (W3C) DOM-based converter which will show the character, the decimal and named entities, as while as the Unicode value. <http://www.saila.com/usage/tips/examples/special_characters.html> In your case, try replacing º with "\u00BA", this should work: document.getElementById(thisId).title = someNumber + "\u00BA" -- Cheers, Craig Saila ------------------------------------------ craig at saila.com : http://www.saila.com/ ------------------------------------------