is a HTML entity. When doing .text()
, all HTML entities are decoded to their character values.
Instead of comparing using the entity, compare using the actual raw character:
var x = td.text();
if (x == '\xa0') { // Non-breakable space is char 0xa0 (160 dec)
x = '';
}
Or you can also create the character from the character code manually it in its Javascript escaped form:
var x = td.text();
if (x == String.fromCharCode(160)) { // Non-breakable space is char 160
x = '';
}
More information about String.fromCharCode
is available here:
More information about character codes for different charsets are available here: