Allows searching for & and other special characters

[lode]

This allows me to search for special characters like ampersand in select boxes. I have a client which has trouble without this as they have large selects and a few options are only findable via ampersands. (i.e. a&b will not be found easily as a and b are far too common).

I don't know if this might break something (why the html() was needed), but for me it seems to work.

[romank8k]

I have the same issue, but we're using the prototype version of Chosen.
I opened up a pull request for it here: #2186

[tjschuck]

I don't know if this might break something (why the html() was needed)

This function was added in #1339 by @pfiller

[tjschuck]

@lode Can you cherry-pick @rkhmelichek's commit over to your PR so this is just one PR?

[lode]

@tjschuck, I'll do.

By the way, I don't think it was added by #1339, it was just moved, see https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/pull/1339/files#diff-c82fb80b20c6f4dcdec5a08a57059c30L409. As far as I know it was added in aed8ba8.

[tjschuck]

@lode Good call -- that was in #89, which refs #73

[lode]

@tjschuck, how do you prefer the merges to be done?
Shall I merge in master from harvesthq? Or do you rather have a rebase?

By the way, if you feel that this creates xss trouble again, please let me know.

[tjschuck]

Rebasing should be fine.

I can't give the +1 on the code change -- I'm mostly just a babysitter for Chosen, managing/triaging issues. One of the @harvesthq/chosen-developers will have to assess whether this will cause XSS or other issues.

[lode]

I see @tjschuck. I added @rkhmelichek's commit (thanks @rkhmelichek for #2186!).

[pfiller]

I don't think this is an issue as of 1.4.0 as evidenced in this fiddle. Perhaps the merging of #2254 made it all better?

In any event, I'm going to close this in the meantime. Thanks, @lode!