title: Android webview "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL"
body: <p>In my android program I got a webview and need to set values to the webview elements (textareas, checkboxes etc) dynamically. i have a javascript method which receives values from the program and perform string operations and stores the values to the correct element. But i get this error always... kinda stuck here. Any help will be appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>I successfully executed the script in the w3schools TryIt Editor, but not working in the program!</p>
  
  <pre><code>final WebView webView = new WebView(getApplicationContext());
  LayoutParams params = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, 1);
  webView.setLayoutParams(params);
  webView.setBackgroundColor(Color.LTGRAY);
  webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
  webView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
  webView.setWebChromeClient(new android.webkit.WebChromeClient());
  webView.setWebViewClient(new WebChromeClient());
  webView.loadData("&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;body&gt;"+ questionsArray[questionIndex] +"&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;", "text/html", "UTF-8");
  webView.addJavascriptInterface(javaScriptInterface, "HtmlViewer");
  scrolRootLayout.addView(surveyWebView);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And my Javascript method to set values for the textareas in the webView</p>
  
  <pre><code>function myFunction(var_)
  {
      var str = var_.replace("-!!!-","");
      var pipeSplitedArray = str.split("||");
  
      for(var i=0; i&lt;pipeSplitedArray.length-1; i++) {  
  
          if(pipeSplitedArray[i].indexOf("-!@!-") == -1) {
  
              var queArray = new Array();
              queArray =pipeSplitedArray[i].split("-@!@-");
  
              if(document.getElementsByName(queArray[0]))
                   document.getElementsByName(queArray[0]).item(0).innerHTML=queArray[1];
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Values are passed on onPageFinished loading..</p>
  
  <pre><code>    private class WebChromeClient extends WebViewClient {
  
                  @Override
                  public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
  
                       view.loadUrl(url);
                       return true;
                  }
  
                  public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
  
                       String script = "javascript:function myFunction(var_) { var pipeSplitedArray = var_.split(\"\\|\\|\"); for(var i=0; i&lt;pipeSplitedArray.length-1; i++) {  if(pipeSplitedArray[i].indexOf(\"-!@!-\") == -1) { var queArray = new Array(); queArray =pipeSplitedArray[i].split(\"-@!@-\"); if(document.getElementsByName(queArray[0])) document.getElementsByName(queArray[0]).item(0).innerHTML=queArray[1]; } } }";
                       view.loadUrl(script);
                       view.loadUrl("javascript:window.HtmlViewer.injectIntoWebView(myFunction("+answerString+"));");
                  }
              }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The HTML content loaded in the webView, questionsArray[questionIndex] is</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="newmain5 norma12" style="position:relative;width:320px;"&gt; Enter your name :&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="newmain6" style="position:relative;width:275px;left:10px;"&gt;
  &lt;textarea name="69_206"  id="1" rows="5" cols="30" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#666666; width:260px; border:1px solid #CCCCCC; background-color:#EBEBEB;" /&gt;
  &lt;/textarea&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>String passed on onPageFinished:</p>
  
  <pre><code>69_206-@!@-MyName||
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The Error i get all time while running my application is</p>
  
  <pre><code>11-23 14:46:59.786: I/chromium(2763): [INFO:CONSOLE(1)] "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL", source:  (1)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried running the script in the w3schools Tryit Editor and the script is successfully executed, but never in the android application.. whats my mistake? Would be great if you can help!!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance..</p>